McKee, John DeWitt, 'Brendan Behan's Island', Sun Dial (El Paso, Texas, 28 October 1962). McKeever, Thomas, 'A Touch of the Drama – Irish Style', The Sunday Press (Dublin, 30 August 1970) p. 16. (Attack on Behan for helping 'to ...
At every opportunity, he nipped across the road to Sinnott's public house. Eventually his foreman, his patience in tatters, sacked him. 'The Salvation Army came to my rescue in 1949', he used to joke. He was employed on the decoration ...
Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews,...
The Irish playwright recounts the time he spent as a young man in an English prison for working on behalf of the IRA, and how it affected his outlook.
The Writings of Brendan Behan
See Séamus de Búrca , The Soldier's Song : The Story of Peadar Kearney ( Dublin : P.J. Bourke , 1957 ) . 4 . Peadar Kearney's wife . See Peadar Kearney , My Dear Eva : Letters from Ballykinlar Internment Camp 1921 , edited by Séamus de ...
[ He goes out into the hall , and then calls back . ] It's Mr Gibbon , Da . gibbon [ from the hall ] . That's who it is all right , Stanislaus Aloysius Ignatius Gibbon , Commander . Only known to all and sundry as the babbling gunman of ...
Colbert Kearney wrote an excellent book. Rory Furlong, Edward Mikhail and Christopher Logue answered my letters and my questions. I had help too from the staffs of the National Library in Dublin and the Periodicals Department of the ...
This is Behan's best-known and most popular play and a classic of the modern stage.A magnificent entertainment which "crowds in tragedy and comedy, bitterness and love, caricature and portrayal, ribaldry and eloquence, patriotism and ...
The Wit of Brendan Behan
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.