THE ITEM:
"BORSTAL BOY"
Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. From a technical standpoint, the novel is chiefly notable for the art with which it captures the lively dialogue of the Borstal inmates, with all the variety of the British Isles' many subtly distinctive accents intact on the page. Ultimately, Behan demonstrated by his skillful dialogue that working class Irish Catholics and English Protestants actually had more in common with one another through class than they had supposed, and that alleged barriers of religion and ethnicity were merely superficial and imposed by a fearful middle class.
The book was banned in Ireland for unspecified reasons in 1958; the ban expired in 1970.
In 1967, the story debuted as a play, adapted by Frank McMahon and staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, with Frank Grimes as the young Behan. The play was a great success, winning McMahon a Tony Award for his adaptation. The play remains popular with both Irish and American audiences.
A film adaptation, Borstal Boy, was released in 2000, directed by Peter Sheridan and starring Shawn Hatosy and Danny Dyer. The Irish band Hothouse Flowers song "The End of the Road" appeared in the soundtrack of the movie.
In 1973, the English rock band The Faces recorded a song about the book, which was included on their album Ooh La La.
The UK electropop group Chew Lips take their name from a character in the book.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE AUTHOR:
BRENDAN BEHAN
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( 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 named by Irish Central as one of the greatest Irish writers of all time.
An Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, Behan was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family becoming a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. 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 an early age. Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he 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 Fáil government in 1946, Behan moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry and Connemara, and also resided in Paris for a time.
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE
BAWDY
SWAGGERING
OUTRAGEOUS
BESTSELLER
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THE PUBLISHER:
CORGI BOOKS
A DIVISION OF TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS
1965
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
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SIZED:
CENTIMETERS: 11 X 18
PAGES: 384
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
REASONABLE TO GOOD, SOME SMALL WRITING IN INK ON TITLE PAGE
COVER:
BIT RUBBED, DIRTY AND LIGHTLY DISCOLOURED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED, SOME LIGHTLY CRACKED BENDS AND UNDEEP SCRATCHES
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
DISCOLOURED, HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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