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Brendan Behan

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by BlackSatinSunrise, May 11, 2018.

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  1. BlackSatinSunrise

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    Behan wrote this poem 'Red Envoy' when he was just 16 https://comeheretome.com/2015/01/13/i-see-this-old-bad-order-die-brendan-behan-at-sixteen/

    he wrote 'Laughing Boy' when he was 13 !

    to me he is the greatest writer of all time, 'Borstal Boy' is a book everyone should own, a real masterpiece (avoid the film like the plague, it bears the same title and that's about it, it 'stars' the awful Danny Dyer which itself tells you it's a bad thing)

    Also 'The Quare Fellow' again is a masterpiece.

    Behan died decades before I was born but I wish the great man was around today.

    A classic response

    The Captains and The Kings
     
  2. ILoveTheCeltic

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    Ice Cube wrote most of the lyrics of * Tha Police when he was 17

     
  3. BlackSatinSunrise

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    how old was he when he starred in Anaconda ?
     
  4. StPauli1916 Gold Member Gold Member

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    How old was he when he joined the ra ?
     
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    "I'm a writer with drinking problems".

    One of the boys too :ireland:
     
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    Borstal boy is a great read,i've read it twice and it gets better with age.
     
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  7. Valhalla Thus spoke Batistuta.

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    Kieran Tierney was an invincible treble winner at 19/20.
     
  8. strike twice

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    According to Radio 4's " The Unbelievable Truth " , Brendan Behan was an alcoholic at the tender age of 8 years old . That fact was mentioned on the show that aired on Monday 7th May .
     
  9. BlackSatinSunrise

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    A biographer, Ulick O'Connor, recounts that one day, at age eight, Brendan was returning home with his granny and a crony from a drinking session. A passer-by remarked, "Oh, my! Isn't it terrible ma'am to see such a beautiful child deformed?" "How dare you," said his granny. "He's not deformed, he's just drunk!
     
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  10. Johniebhoy.

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    we've all had a swig of our da's beer when we were weans and felt a bit woozy,it doesn't mean we were all 8 year old alcaholics. typical BBC *.
     
  11. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    I reached 10th prestige on COD4 when I was 13.
     
  12. honda Gold Member Gold Member

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    I destroyed dr robotnik on sonic at 13 on my megadrive. Thats before they changed his name to eggman. Refuse to play it since.
     
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    Similar literary genius in youth was (by Teacher account) held of the laughing boy himself Michael Collins.

    Shane of the teeth MacGowan also , who won a scholarship for his essays to the Westminster school, which he was expelled from.
    The Dunes is a work very reminiscent of Behans tunes.
     
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    stunning, John Sheahan should be wrapped in cotton wool, last Dubliner standing
     
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    Straight outta Compton............high school:84:





    Ba dum tish
     
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    I was knicked by the police for the first time when I was 9.
    I was the lookout but I didn’t know I was * shortsighted then & didn’t see the * coming!

    Worn glasses ever since!
     
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