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When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated irish writer of the twentieth century. Irish writer and political activist brendan behan, is befriended as a teenager in a british labor camp by a liberal warden. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full access to all. But behan drowned his talent in a whiskey bottle and became the caricature of an irish stage drunk, clowning his way with oaths and stories between. The main characters of this european literature, irish literature story are brendan behan. Publication date 1990 topics general, biography autobiography, behan, brendan, authors, irish, fiction in english 1945 texts. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 386 pages and is available in paperback format.
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