The Art of Brendan Behan
Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : London : Vision
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
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Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : London : Vision
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567921052
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.
Author : Padraic Colum
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 1613102844
Chronicles the adventures of the King of Ireland's eldest and wildest son, describing how he encounters an enchanter's daughter, the king of the cats, Gilly of the goat-skin, and numerous others.
Author : Frank Gray
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449068950
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Ireland
ISBN :
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.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847177301
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.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780773508880
Annotation A thoroughly annotated collection of those letters by controversial Irish playwright Behan (1923-64) that have come to light so far. Also includes some unpublished poems and early writings, and letters to the editor that were rejected. Acidic paper. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9780531095492
Sent to find the source of the heavenly music heard throughout the kingdom, the youngest son of the King of Ireland finds a beautiful maiden held captive by a fierce giant.
Author : John McCourt
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Irish literature
ISBN : 9781782053378
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
Author : Paul Hogarth
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Pencil drawing
ISBN : 9780823011018