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“brendan behan”

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  • A Bit of a Writer

    Brendan Behan's Complete Collected Short Prose

    by Brendan Behan ...
    Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set pieces and amusing yarns as well as thoughtful reflections on cultural and historical issues. They reflect his passion for working-class Dublin life ... Read more

    $13.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After The Wake

    by Brendan Behan ...
    Brendan Behan's genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century.After the Wake is a collection of seven prose works and a series of articles. It includes all that exists of an unfinished novel, 'The Catacombs', and pieces together items whose comic and fanciful accounts evoke Flann ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hostage

    by Brendan Behan ...
    An essential text in the development of modern British dramaFirst staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

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    Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage

    Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions

    by Brendan Behan ...
    Narrated by Joseph Ayre, Ewan Bailey, Samuel James, Gerard McDermott, Michael Duffy, John Hewitt, Brendan Coyle, Jonny Holden, Leah Marks, Louis Rolston, Michael Baguley, Brian Kidd, Anne Kent, Ann Callanan, Full cast ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 12 min

    A collection of some of the rockstar playwright’s finest workBrendan Behan is widely remembered as a hard-drinking, wise-cracking writer who turned up roaring drunk for interviews and cared little for authority. But he was more than just a hell-raising celebrity. His wit, expressive use of language and understanding of human nature made his writing famous around the world, and his masterpieces The ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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  • A June of Ordinary Murders

    by Conor Brady ...
    The first book in a pacey and evocative detective series set in Victorian Dublin. In the 1880s the DMP classified crime in two distinct classes. Political crimes were 'special', whereas theft, robbery and even murder, no matter how terrible, were 'ordinary'. Dublin, June 1887: the mutilated bodies of a man and a child are discovered in Phoenix Park and Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow steps up to ... Read more

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  • Lost Voices of the Edwardians

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  • Vile Victorians

    by Terry Deary ...
    Illustrated by Martin Brown ...
    Series series Horrible Histories
    They may have looked all prim and proper, but the Victorians were a jolly naughty bunch who could be vicious and violent and villainous. Readers can discover the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed and all about stag hunting in Paddington Station. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry ... Read more

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  • Scotland: Her Story

    The Nation’s History by the Women Who Lived It

    Edited by Rosemary Goring ...
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  • Is it That Time Already?

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    Rikki Fulton was one of the biggest stars Scotland has produced. From classic comedy performances in Francie and Josie and Scotch & Wry - including the legendary Rev I M Jolly - and appearances in Hollywood movies like Gorky Park, Rikki had an extraordinary life and career. Now, to celebrate his life and work ten years after his passing, this new edition of Is It That Time Already? tells the full ... Read more

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