biography
pronunciation:
[beean]
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| lived:
| (1928–89)
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| biography:
| Novelist and folklorist, born in Dublin, Ireland, the brother of Brendan Behan. He adapted old airs and poems into contemporary Irish Republican material, notably in The Patriot Game. Resentfully overshadowed for much of his life by the legend of his brother, he lived largely outside Ireland from 1947 as a journalist and singer. He ultimately settled in Scotland, where he won acceptance as a writer and nationalist. His only novel, The Public Life of Parable Jones, was published just before his death. |
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