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Borstal Boy

Book by Brendan Behan; D.R. Godine, 1982

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--20th Century--Biography, Behan, Brendan--Childhood And Youth, Ireland--Social Life And Customs--20th Century, Revolutionaries--Ireland--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...BORSTAL BOY B O R S T A L B O Y Brendan Behan with an Afterword by Benedict...Copyright 1958, 1959 by Brendan Behan Afterword copyright 1982 by...Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Behan, Brendan. Borstal boy. A Nonpareil book...
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The Angry Theatre: New British Drama

Book by John Russell Taylor; Hill and Wang, 1962

Subjects:

Drama, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Theater--Great Britain

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Brendan Behan 101...9d Brendan Behan Photo: Duncan Melvin...to come to prominence with Brendan Behan, Shelagh Delaney, and a number...
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Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Book by Bernice Schrank, William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Dramatists, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Drama--19th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Drama--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Ireland--In Literature--Dictionaries, Theater--Ireland--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a ...
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Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995. Each entry includes a biographical sketch, a summary of productions, a critical assessment of the dramatist's work, and extensive bibliographical information. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel

Book by Nicholas Grene; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Boucicault, Dion--1820-1890--Political And Social Views, English Drama--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Friel, Brian--Political And Social Views, Political Plays, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--19th Century, Politics And Literature--Ireland--History--20th Century, Theater--Political Aspects--Ireland

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of ...
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The Politics of Irish Drama analyzes some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from those of Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry, including works by Shaw, Yeats, Lady Gregory and Beckett. The book looks at political contexts for these plays and, in arguing for the outward-directed nature of dramatic representation of Ireland, shows Irish drama to be an international as much as national phenomenon.
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Fiction, Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries, Ireland--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening ...
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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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The Word Is Not the Sting, or Is It?

Journal article by Paul Dennithorne Johnston; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 56, 1999

Subjects:

Language and languages--Influence, Rhetoric--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...word is not the thing. - Alfred Korzybski, semanticist, circa 1933 Oh death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling! - Brendan Behan, playwright, circa 1956 A good reporter gives just the facts, without bias, opinion, or emotional manipulation. These...
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"I Thought You Knew!": Performing the Penis, the Phallus, and Otherness in Neil Jordan's the Crying Game

Journal article by Shantanu Duttaahmed; Film Criticism, Vol. 23, 1998

Subjects:

Gender identity--Social aspects, Homosexuality in motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jordan, Neil--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Crying Game (Motion picture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Transvestism--Social aspects, Transvestites--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...included in A Neil Jordan Reader, the writer and film-maker cites two Irish authors--Frank OConnor in the twenties and Brendan Behan in the thirties--who had dealt with a similar situation in which a British soldier is held hostage by an IRA activist...
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Survival of the Fittest? Postgraduate Education and the Professoriate at the Fin De Siecle

Journal article by R.M. Douglas; Daedalus, Vol. 126, 1997

Subjects:

Educators--Employment, Universities and colleges--Graduate work

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...interdisciplinarity can be satisfied without further prolonging the time taken to complete the Ph.D. (unless, to paraphrase Brendan Behan, we are to train faculty to be illiterate in two disciplines rather than one). Taken as a whole, though, the general...
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Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other Scenes

Journal article by C. Ondine Chavoya; Afterimage, Vol. 32, 2005

Subjects:

Photography--2004 AD, Photography--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...artistic notables: Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, O. Henry, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Flaherty. Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan, Niccolo Tucci, Arthur Miller, Willem de Kooning, William Burroughs, Larry Rivers, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle...
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Direct Paternalism: Criminalizing Self-Injurious Conduct

Journal article by Andrew Von Hirsch; Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 27, 2008

Subjects:

Book publishing--Usage, Feinberg, Joel, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), von Hirsch, Andrew

Collections: Entire Library

...heavily because alcohol consumption and the life it involves inspires his work (the biographies of Dylan Thomas or Brendan Behan come to mind). This view of autonomy would allow extensive substitution of judgment, however. The state could intervene...

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1964: Brendan Behan at Lime Grove

Magazine article by Malcolm Muggeridge; New Statesman, Vol. 128, December 6, 1999

Subjects:

Behan, Brendan--Appreciation, Dramatists--Appreciation, Interviews--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

1964: BRENDAN BEHAN AT LIME GROVE by Malcolm Muggeridge...which first aroused public interest in Brendan Behan. As I was the interviewer concerned...Dove, then working on Panorama, to get Behan to Lime Grove. His play, The Quare Fellow...
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Arms 1; Weapons: Made in Ulster

Magazine article by John O'Farrell; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 3, 2005

Subjects:

Terrorism--Reports, Weapons--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...sceptical unionist circles, there has been much righteous jubilation at the long-awaited destruction of the IRAs arsenal. Brendan Behan, an IRA veteran of the 1940s, said that "the terrorist is the one with the small bomb"; now it seems the IRA has no...
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Double Shot of Celtic Soul

Magazine article by Helen M. Jerome; Book, March 2001

Subjects:

MacGowan, Shane--Conduct of life, Musicians--Conduct of life, Singers--Conduct of life, The Pogues (Music group)--Conduct of life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...it all in, then spits it back out FOUR DECADES ago, Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and memoirist (Borstal Boy), could...songwriter for the legendary Irish group the Pogues. Behan and OBrien are two of MacGowans favorite writers, and...
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The Good Bi Boy: Playing a Teenager Who Loves Both a Boy and a Girl in Borstal Boy, Shawn Hatosy Exemplifies a Young Hollywood Unfazed by a Role's Sexual Labels

Magazine article by Anderson Jones; The Advocate, April 2, 2002

Subjects:

Actors--Interviews, Borstal Boy (Motion picture), Gays--Portrayals, Hatosy, Shawn--Interviews, Homosexuality in television--Portrayals, Homosexuality--Portrayals, Motion picture industry--Officials and employees, Movie industry--Officials and employees, Television--Portrayals

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...memoir by Irish political activist and literary lion Brendan Behan about his experiences at age 16 while detained at a...Irish accent and sent it to him, and it just happened. Brendan Behan is this icon in Ireland. I had no idea That might have...
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Paddy Solemn and the Desperate Chancer: The Conflict between Two Eternal Irish Types

Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, April 2003

Subjects:

Dunphy, Eamon--Behavior, Ireland--Social aspects, Irish (European people)--Social aspects, Irish--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...at the thought, and cringes at the sight or sound, of Brendan Behan"--for whom read Eamon Dunphy--and that the poor fellow...self-righteous--so horrified by the sight and sound of Brendan Behan, or of Eamon Dunphy-that they couldnt see that the Chancer...

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Behan, Our Literary George Best; Brendan Behan: One Writer Who Would Never Tone Down for the Censors

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 13, 2008

Subjects:

Censorship

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Behan, Our Literary George Best; Brendan Behan: One Writer Who Would Never Tone...company of people who drank like Brendan Behan, told stories like him and were...ideas from Irish writers like Brendan Behan or Kate OBrien (and later Edna...
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One for the Rogue; Hateful Rivalry: Patrick Kavanagh (Nik Wood-Jones) and Brendan Behan (Jimmy O'Rourke)

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 24, 2007

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Hateful Rivalry: Patrick Kavanagh (Nik Wood-Jones) and Brendan Behan (Jimmy ORourke). Byline: Kieron Quirke On Raglan...focuses onKavanaghs hateful rivalry with fellow alcoholic Brendan Behan, and theres nolack of spark between Wood-Jones and Jimmy...
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Blarney and the Bar Necessities; Rambling Man: Adrian Dunbar as Brendan in Full Cry, Backed Up by Jonathan Tafler and Joel Dommett

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 18, 2008

Subjects:

Behan, Brendan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...presence of Irishauthor Brendan Behan, a self-styled "drinker...Mercifully, however, Behan J begins to darken...destruction, and Brendanat the Chelsea offers...core of self-esteem. Brendans greatest fear was...an ordinary human Behan". Hisniece conclusively...
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COLIN WILL LOVE BEING BEHAN; Farrell to Play Legendary Poet

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 26, 2008

Subjects:

Poets

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...legendary Dublin-born wildman - famed boozer and poet Brendan Behan. The cat has been let out of the bag by loose-lipped...will be a role he can really get his teeth into." WIT Brendan Behan was renowned for his colourful stories; ROLE Irish actor...
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..AND THE OSHCAR FOR BESHT PIECE OF CASHTING GOES TO.. Shane to Play Boozer Behan in Film

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), March 12, 2006

Subjects:

Depp, Johnny

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...is to play legendary Irish boozer Brendan Behan in a new movie. The Pogues f rontman confirmed he will star as author Behan in a film version of JP Donleavys...irishpeople@mgn.ie BOOZE BROTHERS: Brendan and Shane, right MOVIE ROLE: Johnny...

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Behan, Brendan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BEHAN, BRENDAN be han, 1923 64, Irish dramatist. A...song and dance farce set in a brothel. Brendan Behans Island: an Irish Sketch-Book (1962...1958); biographies by his brother Dominic Behan (1966) and U. OConnor (1971...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Barrie and Jean Giraudoux ; and the native Irish comedy of J. M. Synge , Lady Gregory , Sean OCasey , Brendan Behan , and Brian Friel. Also important are the musical comedy, which descends from 18th-century ballad operas and the...

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