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The Quare Fellow: Directed by Arthur Dreifuss. With Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly. In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
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- Crime, Drama
- Arthur Dreifuss
- 1963-06-20
He is a man condemned to die on the following day, for killing his brother. It revolts his fellow inmates far less than that of The Other Fellow, a very camp, almost Wildean, homosexual man. The Quare Fellow takes place in Mountjoy Prison during the early 1950s.
- Brendan Behan
- 1954
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Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals.
“Quare fellow,” in the setting of the play, is the colloquial term for someone under the death sentence. The quare fellow of the title has been sentenced to die for murdering his brother with a...
The character of the Quare Fellow is based on Bernard Kirwan, who was hanged while Behan was at Mountjoy Prison. Kirwan had killed his brother, dissected the body, and left the body parts in a bog. As O'Connor notes, "Later, when Brendan came to write The Quare Fellow, he based it on the reaction through.
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