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Brendan Behan

9 February 1923 - 20 March 1964

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Irish playwright who joined the IRA as a teenager and was imprisoned in an English borstal for two years and then was sentenced to 14 years for shooting a policeman in 1942. He wrote while in prison and after his amnesty in 1947; his plays The Quare Fellow (1954) and The Hostage (1958) brought him fame and success, but perhaps his best-known work is Borstal Boy (1958), an account of his incarceration.

Title	Date	Location	Publication
The Quare Fellow	1956	London	Methuen
The Hostage	1958	London	Methuen
Borstal Boy	1958	London	Hutchinson

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Behan (Brendan) Borstal Boy, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, spi...

Hammer: £95

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