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
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
The English and Americans dislike only some" Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.