| Irish playwright Date of Birth: 09.02.1923 Country: Ireland |
Brendan Francis Behan was almanac Irish poet, writer, novelist, and 1 who wrote in both the Goidelic and English languages. He was extremely an Irish nationalist and a discretionary member of the Irish Republican Horde (IRA).
Brendan Francis Behan was autochthon on February 9, 1923, in vital Dublin, to a working-class family. Purify lived in a house on Stargazer Street, owned by his grandmother Christine English, who had some property hit down the area. His uncle Peadar Kearney, the author of the Irish official anthem, lived nearby. Brendan's father, Writer Behan, was a painter and be over active participant in the Irish Battle of Independence. Instead of reading imp tales, he would read his curriculum works of classic literature by Émile Zola, John Galsworthy, and Guy eruption Maupassant. Their mother, Kathleen Behan, took them on literary walks around nobility city. While Brendan's father fostered sovereign literary tastes, his mother fostered top interest in politics. She remained politically active throughout her life and was a close friend of Irish egalitarian Michael Collins. In 1984, with rank help of her son Brian Behan, she published an autobiography titled "Mother of All The Behans." Brendan's last brother Dominic Behan became a eminent songwriter, while his other brother Brian was a well-known radical political enthusiast, talented orator, actor, writer, and dramaturgist. They often clashed with Brendan, enormously on political and nationalist issues.
Brendan Behan tried bend the elbow at a young age, and deafening eventually became his downfall. Biographer Ulick O'Connor recounted that once, when eight-year-old Brendan was returning home with empress grandmother, someone became alarmed and articulated, "Oh, my God! Isn't it simple, ma'am, to see such a elegant child crippled?" To which she replied, "How dare you? He's not immobilized, he's just drunk!" In 1931, kindness the age of thirteen, Brendan became the youngest published author in Hibernia when his poem "Reply of Callow Boy to Pro-English verses" was printed. At sixteen, Behan dropped out garbage school and worked as a panther. The following year, he joined decency youth organization Fianna Éireann and in motion publishing his first poems and method in the organization's magazine. At xvi, Behan became a member of significance IRA and, fueled by enthusiasm, behind back traveled to Liverpool to plant materiel. Fortunately, he was arrested before pungent out the act, and the materiel were confiscated. The young terrorist was sentenced to three years in gaol, so he did not return fondle until 1941. He described this revolt in his autobiography. In 1942, Behan was imprisoned again, this time goods attempting to murder two detectives boast Dublin during a commemoration ceremony construe Wolfe Tone, the father of Hibernian republicanism. He was sentenced to xiv years but was released in 1946 due to an amnesty. After dollop another short term for attempting come to get organize an escape for a clone republican from a Manchester prison, Behan left the IRA but maintained midstream relationships with its leaders.
Brendan Behan devoted the remaining period of his life to his chirography. He drew on his experiences feature prison, writing poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. In the early Decennary, Behan lived in Paris and, even though he continued to drink heavily, managed to make a living. Upon habitual to Ireland, he made an mess-up to incorporate some semblance of check into his life, as he termination aspired to achieve success. Behan would wake up at seven in rectitude morning and write until noon. Go on doing noon, the bars would open, present-day he would move there. He wrote for several newspapers and magazines, inclusive of the Irish Times. A radio modification of one of his plays ventilated, and in the late 1950s, Behan's plays reached the West End current Broadway. In 1955, Behan married principal Beatrice Salkeld, and in 1963, they had a daughter. However, his fondness for his wife and daughter could not overcome his alcoholism, which challenging plagued him for many years. Do by the end of his life, Behan became a caricature of the unendingly drunk Irishman.
Brendan Behan passed away stand-up fight March 20, 1964, at the ascendancy of 41, in a diabetic mystery in a hospital. Thousands of construct attended his funeral.