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Brendan Behan

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Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) (Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. [1]

108 relations: Amhrán na bhFiann, Amnesty, Anthony Cronin, Arlington House (London), Arthur Miller, Autobiographical novel, Émile Zola, BBC, Beatrice Behan, Bob Dylan, Borstal, Borstal Boy, Boston, Brian Behan, Brian O'Nolan, Brothel, C A Joyce, Cathal Goulding, Charles Stewart Parnell, Cockney, Columbo, Connemara, Conscription, Convent, County Galway, County Kerry, Crumlin, Dublin, Culture of Ireland, Curragh Camp, Damien Dempsey, Desmond MacNamara, Dexys Midnight Runners, Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic coma, Dominic Behan, Doug Anthony All Stars, Dropkick Murphys, Dublin, Dylan Thomas, Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, Epileptic seizure, Explosive material, Fianna Éireann, Fianna Fáil, Gaeltacht, Garda Síochána, Google Search, Guests of the Nation, Guy de Maupassant, Harpo Marx, ..., History of Ireland, HM Prison Hollesley Bay, Hostage, Hotel Chelsea, Inauguration of John F. Kennedy, Irish language, Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish republicanism, Irish War of Independence, J. P. Donleavy, Jackie Gleason, Jamaica Plain, Janet Behan, Joan Littlewood, John Galsworthy, John Ryan (Dublin artist), Kenneth Tynan, LP record, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Mad Men, Malcolm Muggeridge, Manchester, Maria Farantouri, Meath Hospital, Memoir, Michael Collins (Irish leader), Mikis Theodorakis, Morrissey, Mountjoy Prison, Mountjoy Square, Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army), Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick Swift, Paudge Behan, Peadar Kearney, Pike Theatre, Recorded Live in Ireland, Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, Shane MacGowan, Stephen Behan, The Auld Triangle, The Bell (magazine), The Clancy Brothers, The Ginger Man, The Hostage (play), The Internationale, The Irish Times, The National Archives (United Kingdom), The Pogues, The Quare Fellow, The Tossers, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, Thousands Are Sailing, Ulick O'Connor, Under Milk Wood, Volunteer (Irish republican), Wolfe Tone. Expand index (58 more) »

Amhrán na bhFiann

"Amhrán na bhFiann", called "The Soldier's Song" in English, is the Irish national anthem.

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Amnesty

Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, "forgetfulness, passing over") is defined as: "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." It includes more than pardon, inasmuch as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense.

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Anthony Cronin

Anthony Gerard Richard Cronin (23 December 1928 – 27 December 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, biographer, critic, commentator, barrister and arts activist.

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Arlington House (London)

Arlington House is a hostel for homeless men in Camden Town, London that opened in 1905.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater.

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Autobiographical novel

An autobiographical novel is a form of novel using autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Beatrice Behan

Beatrice Behan (31 December 1925 - 9 March 1993) was an Irish artist, author, and wife of Brendan Behan.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Borstal

A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

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Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brian Behan

Brian Behan (10 November 1926 – 2 November 2002) was an Irish writer, public speaker, lecturer, and trade unionist.

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Brian O'Nolan

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.

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Brothel

A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.

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C A Joyce

Cyril Alfred "C A" Joyce (12 June 1900 – 5 November 1976) was a British prison manager and headmaster of an Approved School.

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Cathal Goulding

Cathal Goulding (Cathal Ó Goillín; 2 January 1923 – 26 December 1998) was Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA.

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Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell (Cathal Stiúbhard Parnell; 27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician and one of the most powerful figures in the British House of Commons in the 1880s.

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Cockney

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.

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Columbo

Columbo is an American television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Connemara

Connemara (Conamara) is a cultural region in County Galway, Ireland.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Convent

A convent is either a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns; or the building used by the community, particularly in the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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County Kerry

County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county in Ireland.

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Crumlin, Dublin

Crumlin is a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

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Culture of Ireland

The culture of Ireland includes customs and traditions, language, music, art, literature, folklore, cuisine and sports associated with Ireland and the Irish people.

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Curragh Camp

Curragh Camp (Campa an Churraigh) is an army base and military college located in The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland.

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Damien Dempsey

Damien Dempsey (born 1975 in Donaghmede, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk with contemporary lyrics to deliver social commentary on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society. He sings in English, and to a lesser extent in Irish.

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Desmond MacNamara

Desmond J. MacNamara (10 May 1918 – 8 January 2008) was an Irish sculptor, painter, stage and art designer and novelist.

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Dexys Midnight Runners

Dexys Midnight Runners (currently officially Dexys, their former nickname, styled without an apostrophe) are an English pop band with soul influences, who achieved their major success in the early to mid-1980s.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Diabetic coma

Diabetic coma is a reversible form of coma found in people with diabetes mellitus.

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Dominic Behan

Dominic Behan (Irish: Doiminic Ó Beacháin; 22 October 1928 – 3 August 1989) was an Irish songwriter, singer, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English.

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Doug Anthony All Stars

The Doug Anthony All Stars (or Doug Anthony Allstars, DAAS, D.A.A.S. or stylised as D⋆A†A☭S) are an Australian musical comedy, alternative rock and vocal group who initially performed together between 1984 and 1994.

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Dropkick Murphys

The Dropkick Murphys are an American Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1996.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art

December 1949 – July 1951.

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Epileptic seizure

An epileptic seizure is a brief episode of signs or symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

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Explosive material

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fianna Éireann

Na Fianna Éireann (The Fianna of Ireland), known as the Fianna, is an Irish nationalist youth organisation founded by Bulmer Hobson and Constance Markievicz in 1909.

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Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil (meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a political party in Ireland.

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Gaeltacht

Gaeltacht (plural Gaeltachtaí) is an Irish-language word for any primarily Irish-speaking region.

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Garda Síochána

An Garda Síochána (meaning "the Guardian of the Peace"), more commonly referred to as the Gardaí ("Guardians") or "the Guards", is the police force of the Republic of Ireland.

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Google Search

Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google.

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Guests of the Nation

"Guests of the Nation" is a short story written by Frank O'Connor, first published in 1931, portraying the execution of two Englishmen held captive by the Irish Republican Army during the War for Independence.

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Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

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Harpo Marx

Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers.

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History of Ireland

Prehistoric Ireland spans a period from the first known evidence of human presence dated to about 10,000 years ago until the emergence of "protohistoric" Gaelic Ireland at the time of Christianization in the 5th century.

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HM Prison Hollesley Bay

HM Prison Hollesley Bay, known locally as Hollesley Bay Colony (to which signposts still point) or simply The Colony, is a Category D men's prison and Young Offenders Institution, located in the village of Hollesley, about 8 miles (13 km) from the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, England.

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Hostage

A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.

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Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea – also called the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea – is a historic New York City hotel and landmark built between 1883 and 1885, known primarily for the notability of its residents over the years.

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Inauguration of John F. Kennedy

The inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1961 at the eastern portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)

The original Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.

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Irish republicanism

Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is an ideology based on the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

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Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland.

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J. P. Donleavy

James Patrick Donleavy (23 April 1926 – 11 September 2017) was an Irish/American novelist and playwright.

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Jackie Gleason

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor.

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Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

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Janet Behan

Janet Behan (22 July 1954) is an English writer and actress.

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Joan Littlewood

Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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John Ryan (Dublin artist)

John Ryan (1925–1992) was an Irish artist, broadcaster, publisher, critic, editor, and publican.

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Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Lyric Theatre, Belfast

The Lyric Players' Theatre, more commonly known as The Lyric Theatre, or simply The Lyric, is the main full-time producing theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Mad Men

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television.

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Malcolm Muggeridge

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Maria Farantouri

Maria Farantouri or Farandouri (Μαρία Φαραντούρη; born 28 November 1947 in Athens) is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist.

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Meath Hospital

The Meath Hospital in Dublin, Ireland was founded in 1753.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Michael Collins (Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence.

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Mikis Theodorakis

Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης; born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter and composer who has written over 1000 songs.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Mountjoy Prison

Mountjoy Prison (Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland.

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Mountjoy Square

Mountjoy Square is a Georgian garden square in Dublin, Ireland, on the north side of the city just under a kilometre from the River Liffey.

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Northern Campaign (Irish Republican Army)

The Northern Campaign was a series of attacks by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Northern Command between September 1942 and December 1944 against the security forces in Northern Ireland.

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Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.

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Patrick Swift

Patrick Swift (1927–1983) was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin, London and Algarve in southern Portugal.

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Paudge Behan

Paudge Rodger Behan (in Italian).

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Peadar Kearney

Peadar Kearney (Peadar Ó Cearnaígh; 12 December 1883 – 24 November 1942) was an Irish republican and composer of numerous rebel songs.

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Pike Theatre

The Pike Theatre was a theatre located in Herbert Lane, Dublin, Ireland.

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Recorded Live in Ireland

Recorded Live in Ireland is a 1965 album of Irish folk songs performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

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Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels is the debut studio album by English pop group Dexys Midnight Runners, released on 11 July 1980, through EMI Records.

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Shane MacGowan

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an English born musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues.

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Stephen Behan

Stephen (christened Francis) Behan (born 26 December 1891 died 1967) was an Irish republican who was father of writers Brendan, Brian and Dominic Behan.

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The Auld Triangle

"The Auld Triangle" is a song, which was first performed publicly as a part of the play The Quare Fellow (1954) by Brendan Behan.

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The Bell (magazine)

The Bell magazine (1940–54) Dublin, Ireland.

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The Clancy Brothers

The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk group, which initially developed as a part of the American folk music revival.

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The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man is a novel, first published in Paris in 1955, by J. P. Donleavy.

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The Hostage (play)

The Hostage is a loose 1958 English version, with songs, adapted in a much longer text from a one-act Irish language play An Giall, by its author, Brendan Behan.

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The Internationale

"The Internationale" (L'Internationale) is a left-wing anthem.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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The Pogues

The Pogues were an Irish-British Celtic punk band formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.

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The Quare Fellow

The Quare Fellow is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954.

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The Tossers

The Tossers are a six-piece Celtic punk band from Chicago, Illinois formed in July 1993.

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Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a large theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.

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Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop is a theatre group noted primarily for its long-serving director, Joan Littlewood.

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Thousands Are Sailing

"Thousands Are Sailing" is a song by The Pogues, released in 1988.

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Ulick O'Connor

Ulick O'Connor (born 1928) is an Irish writer, historian and critic.

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Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage.

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Volunteer (Irish republican)

Volunteer, often abbreviated Vol., is a term used by a number of Irish republican paramilitary organisations to describe their members.

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Wolfe Tone

Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Behan

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