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Brendan Behan
Mother of All the Behans: Imelda May sings gloriously – and shows an eye for bringing characters to life
Theatre: This revival of Rosaleen Linehan’s one-woman show throws the singer in at the deep end, but she delivers a highly entertaining evening
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book and the ones to catch before they end
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
When a ‘dungeon’ on Leeson Street cost £2 a week and swarmed with literary life
A new book explores Dublin’s literary past, an active part of living or working in the city
Brendan Behan’s papers are in New Jersey. Surely they belong in his native city?
Working-class Dublin was intrinsic to the creative output of a highly individual writer who was born a century ago this week
Brendan Behan was born 100 years ago today. This is how he went from jail cell to literary sensation
Picture Brendan Behan and you probably imagine a man with shirt wide open and a pint in his hand. But the writer was far more complicated than that
Shamrock Rovers, the Down footballers and bullfights - remembering Brendan Behan
Thursday marks the 100 year anniversary of Irish playwright’s birth
The Bell magazine aimed for nothing less than to sound in a new Ireland
A new book enters into conversation with Sean O’Faolain’s publication, which offered a creative space to mid-century Irish writers
Greece Letter: How Brendan Behan influenced the resistance
The image of The Laughing Boy has become a mantra of the Greek Left
In a Word ... Complaint
A story about Brendan Behan’s lighthouse painting days is amusing enough to be true
Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival
Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor
Archive covers more than 100 years of the Irish language movement
Exchange of letters among items in new Conradh na Gaeilge archive at NUI Galway
Fintan O’Toole: It’s the first birthday of the Brexit hole and they have to keep digging
Those who sold it are slithering away from responsibility for its consequences. Those to whom it was sold are left to bear them
Fintan O’Toole: Humans are just apes who burn stuff. Now we must put out the fire
Cop26 delegates have the power to create a turning point in the evolution of our species
Jail Journeyman – On Behan’s lighthouse, the glory of French supermarkets, and confidence-building Christian names
An Irishman’s Diary
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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