Borstal Boy

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921052
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Borstal Boy by : Brendan Behan

Download or read book Borstal Boy written by Brendan Behan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.

The Writings of Brendan Behan

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Publisher : Dublin : Gill and Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Writings of Brendan Behan by : Colbert Kearney

Download or read book The Writings of Brendan Behan written by Colbert Kearney and published by Dublin : Gill and Macmillan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brendan Behan

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Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461660270
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Brendan Behan by : Michael O'Sullivan

Download or read book Brendan Behan written by Michael O'Sullivan and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the new O'Casey by Irish critics in 1958, Behan is now often portrayed as the archetypal Irishman and spectacular drunk. Behind the myth lies the more compelling story of a writer who was never able to fully harness his larger-than-life personality and talent.

Brendan Behan's Island

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brendan Behan's Island written by Brendan Behan and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the snug of the 'Shaky Man' (probably the nearest pub to Guinness Brewery in Dublin) Brendan Behan take us on a tour of his native country. Not very much topographical information is imparted perhaps and even the Georgian architecture for which Dublin is deservedly famous is scarcely mentioned: 'Good architecture, ' Mr. Behan reports as architect friend as saying 'is invisible.' Mr Behan is less interested in things than in people and a galaxy of characters and stories about the inhabitants of that Augustan city cross his pages. But Brendan has been outside Dublin from time to time as London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Montreal, San Francisco and Mexico City can well witness. His investigations among the aborigines of those famed cities are not his concern in this book, however: those anthropological investigations must await another occasion for the telling. Here he regales us with his views on Dublin, the North of Ireland, Galway and the Aran Islands and the counties of the south - always with an eye on the people and their habits rather than on the places themselves. He was accompanied on many expeditions by Paul Hogarth, whose drawings complement the spirit of the text as no other artist's could have done. Intellectuality stimulating, Mr. Behan discourses on the evils of drinking potheen, the mores of Limerick girls, storytellers in the last bastion of Gaelic culture on the Aran Islands, the Irish middle-classes and what he calls 'the Anglo-Irish Horse-Protestants.' Enlivened with song, poem, story, and Paul Hogarth's drawings, this book tells a lot about Ireland but tells us even more about that fascinating human Behan.

The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan

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ISBN 13 : 9781449068950
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (689 download)

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After The Wake

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Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847177301
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book After The Wake written by Brendan Behan and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brendan Behan's genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century. After the Wake is a collection of seven prose works and a series of articles. It includes all that exists of an unfinished novel, 'The Catacombs', and pieces together items whose comic and fanciful accounts evoke Flann O'Brien. Also featured are works of acknowledged excellence, 'The Confirmation Suit' and 'A Woman of No Standing'. This writing bears all the hallmarks of the author's talent – an ability to bring characters to life quickly and unforgettably, a sharp ear for dialogue and dialect, and a natural vocation for story-telling. This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.

Brendan Behan

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Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349140960
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Brendan Behan by : Ulick O'Connor

Download or read book Brendan Behan written by Ulick O'Connor and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brendan Behan died in 1964 at the age of 41, he had rung the changes in his short life: bomber, gunman, borstal boy, alcoholic and, finally, international literary figure with the success of The Quare Fellow , The Hostage and Borstal Boy . But Behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an Irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between bars in Dublin, London, Paris and New York. Written in association with his widow, his mother and others of his family and friends, and old IRA comrades, this is a biography of Brendan Behan.

The Complete Plays

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Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142122
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays written by Neil LaBute and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seconds of Pleasure Neil LaBute unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor."--Jacket.

Reading Brendan Behan

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ISBN 13 : 9781782053378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Reading Brendan Behan written by John McCourt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks beyond the author's all-too-well-known personality and focuses on what ultimately matters - the writing. Focuses on Behan's rich and eclectic body of creative works, his poetry and plays in Irish and English, his short stories and his extraordinary autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy

The Book of Judas

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Publisher : Dufour Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781852241711
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Judas by : Brendan Kennelly

Download or read book The Book of Judas written by Brendan Kennelly and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1991 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, became the number one bestselling book in Ireland. As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award for the book and earned the ultimate accolade of 'Kerryman of the Year'. Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennelly's bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money - until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours. The full-sized Book of Judas is no longer available, usurped by The Little Book of Judas, a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence.

The Writing Irish of New York

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Publisher : Lavender Ink
ISBN 13 : 9781944884536
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis The Writing Irish of New York by : Colin Broderick

Download or read book The Writing Irish of New York written by Colin Broderick and published by Lavender Ink. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23 of today's top Irish-American authors provide personal accounts of how they found their voices in the Big Apple, and editor Colin Broderick provides background essays on Brendan Behan, Maeve Brennan, Frank McCourt, and other Irish-American writers of the past.

The Irish Writer and the World

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446006
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis The Irish Writer and the World by : Declan Kiberd

Download or read book The Irish Writer and the World written by Declan Kiberd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that political conflict between Ireland and England ultimately resulted in cultural confluence and that writing in the Irish language was hugely influenced by the English literary tradition. He continues his exploration of the role of Irish politics and culture in a decolonising world, and covers Anglo-Irish literature, the fate of the Irish language and the Celtic Tiger. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's work demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences across the world.

The Quare Fellow

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Quare Fellow written by Brendan Behan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dead as Doornails

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Dead as Doornails by : Anthony Cronin

Download or read book Dead as Doornails written by Anthony Cronin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this account of life in post-war literary Dublin, Anthony Cronin writes of the frustrations and pathologies of this generation: the excess of drink; the shortage of sex; the insecurity and begrudgery; the limitations of cultural life in mid-century Ireland, and the bittersweet pull of exile.

the ginger man

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis the ginger man by : j.p. donleavy

Download or read book the ginger man written by j.p. donleavy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Dylan Thomas

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Dylan Thomas written by Constantine FitzGibbon and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documented biography of the Welsh poet by a friend who made use of all papers, private and unpublished, to write the first full-scale account.

HOLD YOUR HOUR AND HAVE ANOTHER

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ISBN 13 : 9781033096161
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book HOLD YOUR HOUR AND HAVE ANOTHER written by BRENDAN. BEHAN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: