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Fighting Words and Man Brendan Behan’s Brief But Memorable Trip to Canada

‘Fighting is better than loneliness…’ Borstal Boy Hellraising comes in many forms. To those that have been alive over the last two to four decades, the pop music star or television celebrity spouting four letter words in public or destroying property has become the clichéd image of the term. There was a time however when […]
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“I saw a sign that said ‘Drink Canada Dry’. So I did.” Behan

Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on 9 February 1923. He grew up speaking English but became fluent in Gaelic in prison. His father, painter by trade, was also an Irish republican. The Behan household was as a result steeped in Irish history, literature and song. As a member of Fianna Éireann, the youth wing […]