Brendan Behan
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 106 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5088-5624-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Brendan Francis Behan (pron.: /?bi??n/ BEE-?n; Irish: Breandan O Beachain; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Born in Dublin into a republican family, he became a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Eireann at the age of fourteen. However, 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 a tender age. Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to him serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and was also imprisoned in Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fail government in 1946,...