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Borstal Boy

Brendan Behan

Paperback | Pages: 386 pages

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Original Title:	Borstal Boy
ISBN:	1567921051 (ISBN13: 9781567921052)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Brendan Behan
Setting:	Ireland

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This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ." The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.

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Title	:	Borstal Boy
Author	:	Brendan Behan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 386 pages
Published	:	by Nonpareil Books (first published 1958)
Categories	:	European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction

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Brendan tells his story of a childhood in Ireland to his involvement with the I.R.A. and his arrest and incarceration in the U.K.A great tale of a heavy life, with heavy drinking and flying fists the size of melons.



Period piece that's a less disturbing read than its reputation would predict. Young loose cannon Behan of the IRA gets caught redhanded in England, and learns the system -- and the country that founded it- via its correctional institutions. Banned in Ireland as obscene, this took a while getting published and still managed to upset applecarts in the fifties.Though tame for contemporary readers, this is the Cooks Tour of the world 'inside', circa early forties, in the north of England. Oddly

Written in the 1950s and set in the very early 40s in England; though WWII would typically be front and center at such a time, it is instead a distant echo because all our characters are incarcerated in juvenile prison - the Borstal of the title.More or less autobiographical, Behan is a 16-year-old product of an IRA family, who is apprehended in Liverpool with bomb-making materials before he succeeds in any action. Though the IRA members of his generation distanced themselves significantly from

Behan navigates these violent institutions by being everyone's friend and when his lies contradict then he just blarneys the hell out of everyone, although he does get into a few scraps and there are IRA lines he will not cross. Most conflicts seem to end with "Ah, you're alright, Paddy." I would like to someday read this again much slower and jot down all the books he mentions and also some of the funnier expressions and proverbs he comes out with. I realize I also need to learn how to

I was given a copy of this wonderful book by an Australian I met when travelling in Europe in 1990. The copy was an early sixties Pan edition - its spine was broken, the pages were dog-eared and stained and it had fallen into three pieces. My Australian fellow-traveller had had it passed to him by a similar stranger. On giving it to me he made the proviso that I too must pass it on once I'd read it. I passed it on to a friend in England and I know that he passed it on to someone else. I don't

Hilarious book. The humor and general good nature of the lil IRA boy surprised me, and I thought it would be a depressing read, but it was the opposite. Letting go of his hatred of the English and yet maintaining his own republican beliefs, Paddy grows into quite a young man. I'd like to reread his biography and get to the dramas just to get a fuller picture, because I forgot most of what I knew about Behan other than his sad end. And reading Borstal Boy made me proud of how he got through it