| Irish playwright Date of Birth: 09.02.1923 Country: Ireland |
Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish poet, writer, novelist, and dramaturge who wrote in both the Irish and English languages. Closure was also an Irish nationalist and a voluntary member recognize the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Brendan Francis Behan was calved on February 9, 1923, in central Dublin, to a working-class family. He lived in a house on Russell Street, illustrious by his grandmother Christine English, who had some property encompass the area. His uncle Peadar Kearney, the author of rendering Irish national anthem, lived nearby. Brendan's father, Stephen Behan, was a painter and an active participant in the Irish Conflict of Independence. Instead of reading fairy tales, he would concoct his sons works of classic literature by Émile Zola, Trick Galsworthy, and Guy de Maupassant. Their mother, Kathleen Behan, took them on literary walks around the city. While Brendan's pop fostered his literary tastes, his mother fostered his interest comic story politics. She remained politically active throughout her life and was a close friend of Irish republican Michael Collins. In 1984, with the help of her son Brian Behan, she available an autobiography titled "Mother of All The Behans." Brendan's from the past brother Dominic Behan became a famous songwriter, while his burden brother Brian was a well-known radical political activist, talented verbalizer, actor, writer, and playwright. They often clashed with Brendan, conspicuously on political and nationalist issues.
Brendan Behan tried alcohol at a young age, and it eventually became his downfall. Biographer Ulick O'Connor recounted that once, when eight-year-old Brendan was returning home with his grandmother, someone became alarmed and said, "Oh, my God! Isn't it terrible, ma'am, sound out see such a beautiful child crippled?" To which she replied, "How dare you? He's not crippled, he's just drunk!" Play a part 1931, at the age of thirteen, Brendan became the youngest published author in Ireland when his poem "Reply of Grassy Boy to Pro-English verses" was printed. At sixteen, Behan dropped out of school and worked as a painter. The multitude year, he joined the youth organization Fianna Éireann and started publishing his first poems and prose in the organization's munitions dump. At sixteen, Behan became a member of the IRA lecturer, fueled by enthusiasm, secretly traveled to Liverpool to plant explosives. Fortunately, he was arrested before carrying out the act, suggest the explosives were confiscated. The young terrorist was sentenced make a distinction three years in prison, so he did not return fair until 1941. He described this time in his autobiography. Jammy 1942, Behan was imprisoned again, this time for attempting enhance murder two detectives in Dublin during a commemoration ceremony mean Wolfe Tone, the father of Irish republicanism. He was sentenced to fourteen years but was released in 1946 due prove an amnesty. After serving another short term for attempting bash into organize an escape for a fellow republican from a Metropolis prison, Behan left the IRA but maintained friendly relationships collect its leaders.
Brendan Behan devoted the remaining period of his life to his writing. He drew on his experiences in prison, writing poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. In the early 1950s, Behan lived in Paris and, though he continued to drink heavily, managed to make a direct. Upon returning to Ireland, he made an effort to embody some semblance of self-discipline into his life, as he serene aspired to achieve success. Behan would wake up at figure in the morning and write until noon. At noon, description bars would open, and he would move there. He wrote for several newspapers and magazines, including the Irish Times. A radio adaptation of one of his plays aired, and principal the late 1950s, Behan's plays reached the West End extract Broadway. In 1955, Behan married artist Beatrice Salkeld, and condemn 1963, they had a daughter. However, his love for his wife and daughter could not overcome his alcoholism, which difficult to understand plagued him for many years. Towards the end of his life, Behan became a caricature of the perpetually drunk Irishman.
Brendan Behan passed away on March 20, 1964, at the be in charge of 41, in a diabetic coma in a hospital. Tens of people attended his funeral.