By Brendan Behan, E. H. Mikhail
A severe examine of writer Brendan Behan and his paintings, via accumulated letters, correspondence, fabric from earlier guides and private recollections. E.H.Mikhail has released paintings on different literary figures together with "James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections".
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I was released in December 1941/ and again, in July or August, I 94 7, 4 from, respectively, a Borstal Institution and from Strangeways Prison. On both occasions I was deported as a person likely to be concerned, "in the preparation or instigation of acts of violence in Great Britain designed to influence Government policy or public opinion in respect of Irish affairs". On neither occasion did I give an undertaking to this man Ede, or to anyone else, about my behaviour or about angrthing. , Crumlin, Dublin.
That's an easier trade than house painting, that is ... 1 I made a packet, and very nearly lost my sanity, in the process: I was drunk night, noon and morning. Now, outside of reform school and Borstal, I have been a steady drinker from the age of fifteen, but this wasn't that sort of drinking. H wasn't even like going in for one into the Mabillon or the Reine Blanche (one bit of Paris I do not miss), and finishing in Les Hailes the next morning, or in the Rue Cordellieres (up at Port Royal, at the Salvation Army - a bit more usual for me); it was just: ..
When you're browned off think of Brian Boru. 7 Notes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Power will have another day. This is an Irish proverb which means 'Anyone gets another chance'. What we need is not kings or dictators but our country for ourselves! Wormwood. His Majesty's Borstal Institution. Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. Anglo-Irish term for brothel or hovel; from the Danish 'horekippe'. Brian Boru (926-1014), King of Ireland who was slain while defeating the Danes at the battle of Clontarf, near Dublin. 20 The Letters of Brendan Behan 9 To SEAMUS DE BURCA In Brendan Behan; A Memoir (Newark, Delaware: Proscenium Press, 1971) Seamus de Burca stated that he had never received a letter from Brendan.
