Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behanwas an Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family, he became a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 February 1923
CountryIreland
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.
In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
I ruined my health drinking to other people's.