The theater, poetry, and rebellion are quick in the blood of BRENDAN BEHAN, the Irish playwright; and in this episode drawn from his volume of reminiscences, BRENDAN BEHAN’S ISLAND,illustrated by Paul Hogarth, which is to be published this month by Bernard Geis Associates, we see the lively, colorful background from which his writing has emerged.
The theater, poetry , and rebellion are quick in the blood of BRENDAN BEHAN, the Irish playwright; and in this episode drawn from his volume of reminiscences , BRENDAN BEHAN’S ISLAND, illustrated by Paul Hogarth , which is to be published by Bernard Geis Associates in October, we see the lively , colorful background from which his writing has emerged.
The theater, poetry , and rebellion are quick in the blood of BRENDAN BEHAN.One of his uncles. Peadar Kearney, wrote the “Soldier’s Song”which became the Irish national anthem. Another unde was a well-known proprietor of a Dublin theater which Brendan attended regularly as a boy.and Brendan’s father first laid eyes on his infant son from his cell in a camp for Republican prisoners.