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
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
I am a daylight atheist.
You made one mistake. You married me.
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.