'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a
science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at
it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the
episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for
the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years
old.
The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent.
Conditions were primitive, and violence simmered just below the surface.
Yet Brendan Behan found something more positive than hate in Borstal:
friendship, solidarity and healing flashes of kindness.
Extraordinarily vivid, fluent, and moving, this is a superb and
unforgettable piece of writing. Borstal Boy was adapted into a film in
2000.
Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
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