After the Wake (15 page)
Authors: Brendan Behan
BRENDAN BEHAN was born in Dublin in 1923. When he was sixteen years old he was arrested for Republican activity. He served two years detention in Borstal in England and a five year prison sentence in Ireland before he began to publish poems in Irish and stories in English in various magazines. In 1954
The
Quare Fellow
was accepted for production by the Pike Theatre in Dublin. Another play,
The
Hostage,
and his autobiographical
Borstal
Boy
made him an international name. Brendan Behan died in 1964.
The
Quare
Fellow
The
Hostage
Borstal
Boy
Brendan Behan’s Island
Hold
Your
Hour
and
Have
Another
Brendan
Behan’s
New
York
The
Scarperer
Confessions
of
an
Irish
Rebel
Richard’s
Cork
Leg
The
Complete
Plays
Poems
and
a
Play
in
Irish
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