The Crazy Life of Brendan Behan
Author: Frank Gray
Publisher:
Published: 2010-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781449068950
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The Art of Brendan Behan
Author: E. H. Mikhail
Publisher: London : Vision
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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Author: Brendan Behan
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2004-09
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781567921052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Hard Life
Author: Flann O'Brien
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781564781413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comic look at Irish life. The narrator is Finbarr, an orphan raised amid the odor of good whisky and bad cooking. With a mixture of admiration and unease he watches his brother, Manus, turn into a young man of business, successful enough to move to England.
After The Wake
Author: Brendan Behan
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2014-07-31
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1847177301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Borstal Boy
Author: Brendan Behan
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009-07-28
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1409065391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old. The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface. Yet Brendan Behan found something more positive than hate in Borstal: friendship, solidarity and healing flashes of kindness. Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, this is a superb and unforgettable piece of writing. Borstal Boy was adapted into a film in 2000.
Still Rockin' - Tom Jones, A Biography
Author: Aubrey Malone
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2012-08-09
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1847715818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A short biography of Tom Jones's rags to riches story - his journey from a Welsh mining village to superstardom. The author explores his musical career, his special relationship with his wife and Wales, and also gives an insight into his phenomenal womanizing. This is a balanced and sympathetic account of Jones's personal and professional life.
LIFE
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Publisher:
Published: 1964-09-18
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
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Brendan Behan
Author: E.H. Mikhail
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-03
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1349060135
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