![]() ![]() His autobiographical novel, ‘Borstal Boy’ was published the same year and became a worldwide best-seller. Later, ‘The Hostage’ his English-language adaptation of ‘An Giall’ met with great success internationally. In 1958, his play in the Irish language ‘An Giall’ had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre. This was helped by a famous drunken interview on BBC television with interviewer Malcolm Muggeridge. In 1954, Brendan's first play ‘The Quare Fellow’ was produced in Dublin and was well received but it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained him a wider reputation. Released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946, he moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry, and Connemara, and also resided in Paris for a time. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Brendan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Ireland. There was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in the home, which meant he was steeped in literature and patriotic ballads from an early age. He was an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, and was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family becoming a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. He was named by Irish Central as one of the greatest Irish writers of all time. Brendan Francis Aidan Behan, born on Februwas an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish.
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