Borstal Boy (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Brendan Behan
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1939-1941
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Brendan (Paddy) Behan, Charlie, Ginger, Ken, Callan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Antiheroes, Punishment, Nationalism, Terrorism or terrorists, Boys, Great Britain
Form and Content
In 1939, at the age of sixteen, two days after having crossed the border from Ireland into England, Brendan Behan was arrested in Liverpool for possession of explosives, which he intended to use in helping to implement the plant-bombing campaign of the IRA; he had been a volunteer in the Second Battalion, Dublin Brigade, of the IRA for the previous three years. Borstal Boy is Behan’s forthright account of his life as a teenage inmate or Young Prisoner ( YP) in the English penal system. Each of the book’s three parts depicts his life in a different...
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