Publishers Weekly, May 3rd, 1999
Michael O'Sullivan. Roberts Rinehart, $28 (354p) ISBN 1-57098-274-0
O'Sullivan, literary editor of the Irish political magazine Magill, has done a wonderful job of tying together the strings of Behan's short, tumultuous life. Born into a staunchly Republican family (his uncle wrote the Irish national anthem), Behan (1923-1964) was first arrested in 1939 on an IRA bombing raid in England. Imprisoned in a boys' borstal (a reformatory), he was released back to Ireland in 1941 and quickly rearrested for trying to shoot a policeman. He spent the rest of WWIJ in Irish jails as a political prisone...
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