Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,69 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 Also includes some unpublished poems and early writings, and letters to the editor that were rejected.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 : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 19,62 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 : Michael O'Sullivan
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461660270
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.
Author : Ulick O'Connor
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,27 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0349140960
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.
Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Irish Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628971835
An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, The collected letters of Flann O'Brien presents an intimate look into the life and thought of Brian O'Nolan, a prolific author of novels, stories, sketches, and journalism who famously wrote and presented works to the reading public under a variety of pseudonyms. Spanning the years 1934 to 1966, these compulsively readable letters show us O'Nolan, or O'Brien, or Myles na gCopaleen, or whatever his name may be, at his most cantankerous and unrestrained. -- Publisher description.
Author : Martha C. Carpentier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137503629
These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.
Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802142122
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.
Author : Brendan Constantine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781597091381
Letters To Guns represents a collection of poems that examine the para-physical natures of love and history, at times re-imagining both. As the poems progress, eight letters arrive written by non-human addressees (a nightgown, a grove of trees, a wooden spoon, others) at random points over the last 2,200 years. They are messages from home and pleas for understanding, warnings and promises of change. These in turn ignite other poems and themes which anticipate the next arrival. Taken together, the letters form an armature, a living skeleton fleshed by real and metaphenomenal experience. Throughout, a variety of styles appear and no single approach to poetry pervades. Singly, these poems should challenge and entertain. As a group they must transform and evolve our experience of sitting down with a book of poems.
Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195169212
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers.For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
