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  1. 3 days ago · Opinion October 31, 2024 by Larry Kirwan. “There’s only room for one genius in this family!”. Brendan Behan is reputed to have remarked to Dominic, his younger brother. While Dominic Behan may not be as well-known as Brendan, it would be hard to argue that he is not his equal in sheer creativity. However, Brendan was correct when he ...

  2. 3 days ago · Written by teenage rebel Brendan Behan, the well-known Irish song “The Laughing Boy” was penned in memory of another iconic rebel, Michael Collins. But this song also had an extraordinary and dramatic afterlife as “To Yelasto Paidi,” the powerful left-wing anthem of resistance against the dictatorship that ruled Greece in the late ...

  3. 3 days ago · It’s by Irish author Brendan Behan and it’s autobiographical. Published in 1958, the book begins with Behan’s arrest at the age of 16 in Liverpool for plotting to put bombs on ships in the shipyard – for Behan is a member of the IRA. Searching his pockets, he tells us that the police find a letter written in Irish “from a boy in ...

  4. 2 days ago · Brendan Behan, who knew him later, said: “You had to look twice to see if he was there at all.” ... Live from the GPO – Brendan Balfe on making waves at Radio Éireann . Seán MacBride ...

  5. 2 days ago · It will be staged for the first time at Dublin venue Vicar Street Dublin, 3 April 2025. The synopsis for Moonlight says, "Philip Lynott would have been 75 years old on August 20th, 2024, had he ...

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  7. 1 day ago · Some of the authors discussed in the book include: Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan, John Broderick, Colm Tóibín, Keith Ridgway, Jamie O’Neill, Micheál Ó Conghaile and Barry McCrea. The book critically analyses the emergence of contemporary Irish gay fiction since 1993, especially its most notable genres: the coming out romance and the historical romance.

  8. 3 days ago · Fellow Linn Councillor Margaret Morgan said: “In support of Bailie Mc Cabe’s motion, I would like to pay tribute and draw attention to the part played by Irish literature, with literary giants such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Brendan Behan, Samuel Becket and George Bernard Shaw (to name but a few) impacting on the young minds in Scottish schools and universities, where the ...

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