Brendan Behan

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

 

Ice Cube wrote most of the lyrics of * Tha Police when he was 17

 

how old was he when he starred in Anaconda ?

 

How old was he when he joined the ra ?

 

"I'm a writer with drinking problems".

One of the boys too

 

Borstal boy is a great read,i've read it twice and it gets better with age.

 

Kieran Tierney was an invincible treble winner at 19/20.

 

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 .

 

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!

 

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 *.

 

I destroyed dr robotnik on sonic at 13 on my megadrive. Thats before they changed his name to eggman. Refuse to play it since.

 

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.

 

stunning, John Sheahan should be wrapped in cotton wool, last Dubliner standing

 

one of the last interviews with the great man https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-brendan-behan-1964-online

 

Straight outta Compton............high school





Ba dum tish

 

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!