As an adult, Irishman Brendan Behan was known for two things, the vivid plays he wrote (“The Quare Fellow,” “The Hostage”) and the commotions he caused when he was inebriated, which was often. A ...

Adapting Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boy” — the legendary Irish playwright’s memoir of his teen stint as an Irish Republican Army prisoner in a British juvenile facility — as a film seems like the most ...

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Shikusa Borstal Prison for juvenile offenders aged 15-18 years. [Duncan Ocholla]. More than 50 years since the first borstal institution was opened in Kenya to care for young offenders, lack of staff ...

Thomas Lister, or Tommy as he was known, my grandfather, was the youngest Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army during the war. I am uncertain of the exact details and dates - it may have been ...

PITTSBURGH — Guitar grind and grit; sweat and swagger. A singer on stage in a darkly lit bar, testifying about the wonders and woes of love. It's all there, in the deliciously throwback sound of ...

A FORMER prison governor and star of reality TV show Bring Back Borstal has called for the reinstatement of the tough 1930s regime in 21st Century Britain, saying today’s justice system is failing ...

Brendan Behan, the Irish playwright and novelist who drank himself to death at 41, was once a borstal boy himself — unwilling resident of a British reformatory — and “Borstal Boy” is supposedly an ...

Shikusa Borstal Prison for juvenile offenders aged 15-18 years. [Duncan Ocholla]. More than 50 years since the first borstal institution was opened in Kenya to care for young offenders, lack of staff ...

Brendan Behan, the Irish author and playwright who was almost as famous for prodigious drinking as he was for writing (he died, at 41, in Dublin in 1964), wrote Borstal Boy about his teenage ...