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Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, at age 16, he was arrested in Liverpool with a suitcase full of high explosives.
BORSTAL BOY is the autobiographical record of Behan's experiences from that day through his imprisonment, trial, remand to reform school and final release. Schools for delinquents in England are called Borstal Institutions, and Behan's account of his years as a "Borstal Boy" is told in vigorous, dramatic prose.
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The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Autobiographical work by Brendan Behan, published in 1958. The book portrays the author's early rebelliousness, his involvement with the Irish Republican cause, and his subsequent incarceration for two years in an English Borstal, or reformatory, at age 16. Interspersed with tales of brutality are anecdotes about dramatic and musical pastimes and Behan's gardening and handicraft activities. The book is notable for capturing the immediacy of conversation among the inmates.
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Borstal Boy
Borstal Boy,Brendan Behan,David R. Godine Publisher,1567921051,20th century,Authors, Irish,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Ireland,Irish authors,Literary,Revolutionaries
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