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New York has been violently aware, since 2 September, of the arrival of a bawdy, iconoclastic, ex-Irish revolutionary, ballad-singing, jig-dancing, stocky, rumpled, wild-haired, thirty-seven-year-old Dublin playwright named Brendan Behan. Though Mr Behan has been represented in this country only by a not very successful off-Broadway production of The Quare Fellow and by his autobiography, Borstal Boy, he is already as much of a public pet here as he is in Europe.
New York Times, 18 Sep 1960, Section 2, pp. 1, 3.
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Gelb, A. (1982). Brendan Behan’s Sober Side. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Brendan Behan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06016-0_2
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