Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan
Brendan Francis Aidan Behanwas 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. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family, he became a member of the IRA's youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 February 1923
CountryIreland
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...
I am a drinker with writing problems.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.