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
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Ice Cube wrote most of the lyrics of * Tha Police when he was 17
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"I'm a writer with drinking problems".
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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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Kieran Tierney was an invincible treble winner at 19/20.
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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 .
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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!packybhoy and StPauli1916 like this. -
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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 *. -
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I reached 10th prestige on COD4 when I was 13.
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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.Mr Shelby likes this.
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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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one of the last interviews with the great man https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-brendan-behan-1964-online
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Straight outta Compton............high school:84:
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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!packybhoy likes this.