2. -He was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist
and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish.
-He was an Irish republican and a volunteer in the
army.
-He was born into a republican Irish family.(1923)
-At the age of 16 he was imprisoned in an Irish
prison. During this time he started to study and he
became a fluent speaker of the Irish language.
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3. -He married Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld in 1955.
-he had a drink problem which resulted in him
suffering from diabetes.
-And for this reason, he died on 20 March 1964
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4. -His first play was The Quare Fellow, it was
produced in dublin.It was well received.
-It became famous at its production in 1956 at Joan
Littlewoods's theatre workshop in London.
-two years later, he wrote An Giall in the Irish
language and then he translated it into the English
language.
-his autobiography,The Borstal Boy, became a
worldwide bestseller.
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5. -The Quare Fellow(1954)
-An Giall (The Hostage) (1958)
-Richard's Cork Leg (1972)
-Moving Out (one-act play, commissioned for radio)
-A Garden Party (one-act play, commissioned for radio)
-The Big House (1957, one-act play, commissioned for
radio)
Plays
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6. *Books-Borstal Boy (1958)
-Brendan Behan's Island (1962)
-Hold Your Hour and Have Another (1963)
-Brendan Behan's New York (1964)
-Confessions of an Irish Rebel (1965)
-The Scarperer (1966)
-After The Wake: Twenty-One Prose Works Including Previously
Unpublished Material (posthumous – 1981)
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