Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on February 9th, 1923 and is the Playwright. At the age of 41, Brendan Behan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brendan Francis Behan (christened Francis Behan) b.n. Breandán, Ireland; beach. 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish.
Behan, a Dublin native and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, was born in Dublin into a firmly republican family and joined the IRA's youth group Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen.
In addition, there was a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in the home, which meant he was steeped in literature and patriotic ballads from an early age.
Behan eventually joined the IRA at the age of sixteen, spending time in a British borstal youth detention center, and being detained in Ireland.
He took it upon himself to read, and he became an Irish speaker fluent.
Behan, who was later released from jail as part of a general amnesty administered by the Fianna Fáil in 1946, subsequently moved between Dublin, Kerry, and Connemara, and a brief period of time in Paris. Behan's first play The Quare Fellow was produced in Dublin in 1954.
Early life
Behan was born in Dublin's inner city, Holles Street Hospital, on February 9th, 1923, into an educated working class family.
Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, had two sons, Sean Furlong and Rory, from her first marriage to compositor Jack Furlong, and Carmel; after Brendan was born, she had three more sons and a daughter.
They first lived in a house on Russell Street near Mountjoy Square owned by his grandmother, Christine English, who owned several homes in the area. Stephen Behan, a house painter who had participated in the War of Independence, read classical literature to the children at bedtime, including Zola, Galsworthy, and Maupassant's mother Kathleen took them on literary tours of the city. She was politically active throughout her life and was a close friend of Irish President Michael Collins. Mother of All the Behans, Kathleen's autobiography, was released in 1984 as a result of her son Brian's involvement with her son Brian.
At the age of thirteen, Brendan Behan wrote The Laughing Boy, a lament to Collins. The name came from Mrs Behan's affectionate nickname to Collins.
Peadar Kearney, Behan's uncle, wrote The Soldier's Song, which became Ireland's national anthem Amhrán na bhFiann when it was converted into Irish. Dominic was also a writer, best known for the film The Patriot Game; his brother Brian, a well-known radical political activist and writer, and playwright;
Brendan was returning home with his granny and a friend from a pub on a single day, according to biographer Ulick O'Connor.A passer-by remarked, "Oh, my!
Isn't it sad, ma'am, to see such a beautiful child deformed? His granny chuckled, "How dare you.""He's not deformed; he's just drunk!"
The Behan family moved to a newly developed local council housing project in Kildare Road, Kimmage, which was seen by Dubliners as the countryside, a parody of Oliver Cromwell's request that the Irish be sent "to hell or to Connacht." Behan left school at 13 to begin apprenticeship to follow in his father's and both grandfathers' footsteps as a house painter.
Personal life
Behan married Beatrice Ffrench Salkeld, Behan's daughter of the painter Cecil Ffrench Salkeld, in February 1955. (Naturally, Dublin wits dubbed the family the Ffrench Behans) Blanaid was born in 1963, just after Behan's death.