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When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Pat:
He was an Anglo-Irishman.
Meg:
In the blessed name of God what's that?
Pat:
A Protestant with a horse.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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It's great to be on your own for a bit, in the sun, and in the country. That's one thing you never were in Walton. Nor any other prison, I suppose. For all their solitary confinement you were watched and your every moment — even at times when you'd give a dog a bit of privacy. What they call in Irish — "Uaigneas gan ciuneas" — loneliness without peace.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Born:
February 9, 1923
Died:
March 20, 1964
(aged 41)
Bio:
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was 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.
Known for:
Borstal Boy (1958)
Confessions of an Irish rebel
The complete plays
After the wake
Richard's cork leg
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