A Comparison/Contrast of Brendan Behan's 1940'-IRA stagework "An Gaill" and its English version "The Hostage"
Date Submitted: 09/15/2004 11:20:02
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 11 pages (2891 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 11 pages (2891 words)
From An Gaill to The Hostage and the greatness lost therein
Brendan Behan is arguably the most prolific post World War II writer to come from Ireland. A joint American-English audience, expecting another Joyce or Swift eagerly accepted the new author into the world of English theater. A scandalous character, he was known as a wild "angry youth"(Ricks 9), often appearing drunk in public and being arrested for that charge several times while on travels …
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…Gaill are no exception.
Works Cited
Behan, Brendan. An Gaill/The Hostage. Boston: Catholic University of America Press, 1987. 34-83
Coogan, Tim Pat. The IRA: A History. New York: O'Sullivan Press, 1993. 251 - 456
Behan, Brendan. The Wit of Brendan Behan. London: Frewin Publishers, 1974. 45
Boyle, Ted Eugene Brendan Behan. Boston: Twayne Publishing, 1969. 137
Behan, Dominic My Brother Brendan. Boston: Catholic University of America Press, 1972. 87-92
Ricks, Christopher. "Bee-Keeper" The New York Review of Books 30 July 1964: pp 8-9
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