Irish writer Brendan Behan died on this day, March 20, 1964. To mark the anniversary, MacDara Ó Conaola recounts a humorous story about the crafting of Behan's death mask. My granduncle James and I ...

The Abbey Theatre has announced a never-before-seen rework of Brendan Behan's iconic play "The Quare Fellow", replacing the play's traditionally all-male cast with a cast played exclusively by female ...

DUBLIN saw a lot of trouble, but not all her songs were, as they say, of war and slaughter. They also knew the heart-scald of men chasing women or, as happens now and again during leap year and the ...

Actor Adrian Dunbar has played Brendan Behan on the stage many times, and now sets out on a journey to discover the real story of the poet and playwright. He travels to all the cities Behan lived in, ...

A film about the writing of Brendan Behan realised through three performers wandering through Dublin reciting extracts from his work. Together it tells of Behan's life and also prison, about ...

Brian Behan, the colorful, contentious Irish writer and younger brother of the noted dramatist Brendan Behan, has died at the age of 75. British writer Martin Green said Behan died of a heart attack ...

In Ireland, the name of Brendan Behan still conjures up a foggy image of the larger-than-life personality who commanded the attention of that country’s literary establishment before drinking himself ...

THE SCARPERER by Brendan Behan. 158 pages. Doubeday. $3.95. To scarper is to make off, to run away, to escape, in Irish slang. And to scarper is what the young Brendan Behan must often have dreamed of ...