Louis Macneice said of Brendan Behan: 'He ! wrote with plenty of hyperbole and emphasis. He was a man of humanity, gusto and formidable wit.'The problem of a collection of 'Behanisms' is not what to include, but what to omit. His writing was only a convenient way of letting the whole world know what he was saying. There was hardly a story he told that he didn't write, and there was hardly a quip he wrote that he didn't repeat and repeat, again and again. 'I'm like Shaw,' he once said, 'I always quote myself it adds spice to the conversation.''This collection of stories has been gathered from many sources and it shows only one side of Brendan . . . the witty talker and writer. But add to this a vaudevillian sense of comedy; the versatility of the true ego-pricker; the happy boyish belief that you can find a good man anywhere; and then, for perversity's sake, throw in the drinker, the fighter, the rebel, the borstal boy, the I 'pudding cheenis' and you have the complex figure that was Brendan Behan. Yet behind all these was another side . . . the serious writer; the man who was conscious that he had a contribution to make to world writing and who critics believe made it with his magnificent Borstal Boy.

The wit of Brendan Behan;

BEHAN, Brendan

Frewin

The late Brendan Behan captured the essence of Ireland in this compilation of Dublin talk, reminiscence, comment, verse and anecdote. The text is complemented by Paul Hogarth's drawings.

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook

Biographies & Memoirs

HOGARTH, PAUL

Community & Culture

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

Excerpt from Hold Your Hour and Have AnotherHe was once Crippen, the piper The Hot Malt Man and the Bores Nuts from the Crimean War Meet a great poet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hold your hour and have another

Literature & Fiction

Hutchinson

<p>The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. 'Are you Irish?' he asked me. 'No' I said 'as a matter of fact, I'm Yemenite Arab.' Two detectives came forward who were evidently there to meet me. 'Apparently he is Brendan Behan,' they said. The immigration officer shook my hand and his hard face softened. 'Cead mile failte romhat abhaile.' (A hundred thousand welcomes home to you.) I could not answer. There are no words and it would be impertinence to try. I walked down the gangway. I was free. First published after Brendan Behan's tragic death, Confessions of an Irish Rebel picks up where Borstal Boy left off. Not only is it the last instalment of a unique and unorthodox autobiography, but of a unique and unorthodox life that was as touched with genius as it was with doom.</p>

Confession of Irish Reb (Arena Books)

Arrow, 1990

BORSTAL BOY

Arrow Books (U.K.), 1990

Life Styles

O'Connor, Ulick

Poetry

Dolmen

Hold Your Hour and Have Another (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketch-Book

Travel

Europe

Little. Brown and Company

Evergreen Black Cat paperback. Published by Grove Press.

The Quare Fellow, and the Hostage: Two Plays.

GROVE PRESS

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