#brendan behan

[oldshowbiz]

Fighting Words (1953-1962) was a CBC Television series hosted by Toronto theater critic Nathan Cohen.

It was sort of like an argumentative version of Information Please.

This episode features Dublin poet Brendan Behan, Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan, and Nigerian musician Babatunde Olatunji.

They argue with Claude Dewhurst, a retired British General who defends colonialism by claiming people want to be oppressed.

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#OTD in 1964 – Death of Brendan Behan, an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English.

He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. He died in Meath hospital after reportedly telling a nun looking after him: ‘Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops’. Brendan Behan was born in Dublin into a republican family, and became a member of the IRA’s youth organisation Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. However, there was also a…

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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him -Brendan Behan

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You can’t go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn’t think that heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn’t think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that.

MORRISSEY

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You realize, when you want somebody, that there is no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Brendan Behan

[thisdrinkinglife]

REMEMBERING BRENDAN BEHAN 1923-1964

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Brendan Behan, one of Ireland's greatest writers, was born 101 years ago. Known across the world for his legendary Dublin wit, even on his deathbed it is said that he thanked the nun who was nursing him by saying, "God bless you Sister, may you be the mother of a bishop."

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I can't stop thinking about that poor boy in The Quare Fellow. Jenkins, with the concertina and the hymn. The performance I saw of it in the Abbey was beautiful but also its how this wonderful beautiful song by a poor young boy who used to sing at street corners until he was haunted out of it because people found out his job, and his song, this song of redemption and sincerity, is weaved with the comments of the governor about the calculations of an execution. This, talk of height and weight and such as if it is not some horrible thing, and this shy boy singing. And then the young prisoner from Kerry sings for the quare fellow, because he still sees him as human despite his horrible crimes, in irish, and then the song fades away as the horror of the morning comes. I have really never seen a better argument against the death penalty as this play.

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PRISONER D: He should be taken up for that. According to that man, there should be no such thing as law and order. We could all be murdered in our beds, the innocent prey of every ruffian that took it into his head to appropriate our goods, our lives even. Property must have security! What do you think society would come to without police and judges and suitable punishment? Chaos! In my opinion, hanging's too good for 'em.

Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow

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Brendan Behan: Shoot me in my absence

“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” —Brendan Behan.

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Brendan Behan 1923-1964

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1889 – Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, ‘Mother of All the Behans’ and folk singer is born in Dublin.

“What I have, I hold.” –Kathleen Behan History has cast Kathleen Behan in supporting roles, reducing her to the “sister of” or “mother of” someone important. But she deserves so much more – Kathleen was a political powerhouse, raconteur, and gifted singer who, in the course of her long and often tragic life, managed to have a bit of fun along the way. Kathleen Kearney was born in a Dublin…

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You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Brendan Behan

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If it was raining soup, that crazy duck would go out with a fork.

Bugs Bunny 

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I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don’t respect the law; I have a total irreverance for anything concerned with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Brendan Behan