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
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.
The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.