Brendan Behan (1923–1964)
Autore di Brendan Behan ragazzo del Borstal
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Brendan Behan was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1923. He came from a family of rebels. His father was in prison because of IRA activities when Behan was born, and his uncle Peadar Kearney was the author of A Soldiers Song, the song of rebellion that was to become the country's national anthem. Not mostra altro surprisingly, Behan became a rebel himself, joining Fianna Eirann, a youth organization that he referred to as the Republican Boy Scouts, at the age of 9 and transferring to the IRA when he was just fourteen. When he was 16, Behan was arrested for the possession of explosives while in Liverpool, England. Apparently he had been sent there as part of a plot to blow up the battleship King George V. Behan spent 3 years in an English reform school, an experience that later became the basis for the autobiographical novel Borstal Boy. When he was released in 1942, Behan was sent back to Ireland, where he rejoined the IRA and, in less than a year found himself under arrest again. This time the charge was firing at two police officers, for which he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was released, however, in 1946 as part of a general amnesty. Upon leaving prison, Behan worked as a house painter and a seaman. He also began writing, initially as a freelance journalist and later as a playwright. His best-known works are his plays The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, comedy-dramas that deal with the subjects Behan knew best-Dublin and the IRA. Behan also wrote Brendan Behan's Ireland: An Irish Sketchbook, Brendan Behan's New York, The Scarperer, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Richard's Cork Leg, and After the Wake. Behan died in 1964, at age 41, of a combination of alcoholism, jaundice, and diabetes. After Behan's death, Borstal Boy was adapted for the theatre by Frank McMahon. The resulting production won a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best play of 1969-70 season. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Brendan Behan
The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Plays: Hostage, Bailegangaire, Belle of the Belfast City, Steward of Christendom,… (2008) 15 copie
The Big House 5 copie
A Garden Party 3 copie
Moving Out 3 copie
The Confirmation Suit 1 copia
The "Short Play" Series 1 copia
The Points Short Story Anthology 1 copia
Best-in-Books: A Day in the Life of President Kennedy / French Bride / Scarperer / Little Kingdom 1 copia
An Giall ; The hostage 1 copia
Opere correlate
Great Irish Writing: The Best from the Bell (Classic Irish Fiction) (1978) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Five Modern Plays — Autore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Street, Emmet, (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1923-02-09
- Data di morte
- 1964-03-20
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- Paris, France
Borstal Prison, Borstal, Kent, England, UK
Strangeways Prison, Manchester, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Dublin, Ireland - Attività lavorative
- house painter
playwright
novelist
author
writer
revolutionary - Relazioni
- Machlin, Milt (college roommate)
Behan, Brian (brother)
Behan, Dominic (brother) - Organizzazioni
- Irish Republican Army (IRA)
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Confessioni di un ribelle irlandese di Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan è un irlandese. E nelle sue confessioni ci sta tutto il fascino di una nazione e di un popolo che fa della sua storia, una storia, diversa, del mondo. La verde Irlanda, la bella Irlanda, il cielo d’Irlanda, i pub di Dublino e quelli delle contee del Nord, l’Irlanda di Joyce, di Swift, di Shaw, di Yeats. L’Irlanda delle ballate, degli gnomi, terra fatata; l’Irlanda della Guinness e l’Irlanda del whiskey, quello con la e, completamente diverso da quello scozzese. E poi gli irlandesi, bevitori per eccellenza, feste e balli, partire per emigrare, carestie e suore; e, sopratutto, sull’isola di fronte, un nemico da combattere, da sempre, da Cromwell in poi, in nome di una religione, o di un’altra, l’Irlanda occupata, l’Irlanda divisa. Brendan Behan è stato un irlandese e nella sua biografia c’è tutta la cultura e lo spirito del popolo irlandese. Irriverente, profondo, fuori dagli schemi, ma frutto di un modo di vivere e di approcciare la vita che deriva da secoli di lotte e di fame, per un Paese del nord abitato da un popolo meridionale.… (altro)
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