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Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
Category: Military | Series: Arena Bks.
'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he wa ...Show more
Hostage by Beatrice Behan; Brendan Behan
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
'An essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood''s Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to ...Show more
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