Talk:Brendan Behan

message: I'm fairly certain Brendan Behan, or at least a character based on him,  makes an appearance in Dunleavy's "The Ginger Man".  The main character (Dangerfield) is at a party in Dublin where a drunken, singing man (called Barney Berry) comes in. Dangerfield tells a partygoer "That's the son of the rightful Lord Mayor of Dulin. And his Uncle wrote the national anthem."   Berry himself tells the partygoers that "I loved the British prisons...I love all you women. I would do you all and your young brothers".  I know Dunleavy and Behan were friends, and it seems to me that this character is Behan making a cameo appearance in Dunleavys story (which takese place in post WW II Dublin). The behavior of Berry seems to match up with Behan's reputation at the time (scandalous, life of the party, etc.) And of course you have references to 1.) his father, the "rightful Lord Mayor", who was held in high esteem in Republican circles for his lifelong refusal to compromise 2.)his Uncle, who did indeed write the national anthem 3.)possible reference to bisexuality of Behan 4.) his heavy drinking and drunkeness 5.) his love of music and song. 
I'm curious if anyone else thinks so.  It is on page 164 in the edition of "The Ginger Man" I have.-Masthope  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.210.172 (talk) 01:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In "Ginger Man"

message: I have contacted Diagio and Guinness to verify that Brendan Behan was commissioned to write a slogan for Guinness Stout.  The response I recieved was as follows...
"I contacted our Archives department regarding you enquiry.  Unfortunately they
are not familiar with either slogan you mentioned in your email.  Guinness has
never commissioned Brendan Behan to write that line - however, whether Brendan
Behan himself wrote that line about Guinness we wouldn’t be able to confirm that
for you."
Can anyone verify that Brendan Behan even wrote that line???
Carrie Croft
:I found a reference to the Behan slogan story on the following webpage: http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irishpost/Travel/Getwhiskedaway.asp.  Of course, that doesn't make it true, but it does suggest the legend is not uncommon. Bjimba 20:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sounds like an urban myth. He was close to Garech Browne in his last years, so if it was true there were no hard feelings.JoxerD 18:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brendan Behan and Guinness 

message: The "Ireland has lost her sweet angry singer" song is "Lament for Brendan Behan," recorded by the Clancys. In his speech introducing the song on the "Recorded Live in Ireland" album, Liam Clancy describes how "a young Jewish lad" came up to him after a gig, saying that on hearing of Behan's death he "just had to write this song" and asking that the Clancys sing it. I was not able to verify whether the Doug Anthony All Stars cover of it is actually called "The Old (Auld/Ould) Triangle," so I took that mention out. If the DAAS did call it that, it was a mistitling.
--Hieronymus Illinensis 18:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ould Triangle vs. Lament for Brendan Behan 

message: This article states that the "Quare Fella" is slang for the condemned man. I have always understood that this refers to the Hangman. When my mother used the expression, she would be refering to somebody who she thought "a bit strange" or someone she "didn't know". If the term refers to the condemed man, it would be called the "Quare Fellas" because there are two condemned men, not one. Thank you. Pat Pending (talk) 14:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Quare Fella

message: It's not clear to me which one is Behan. Can someone who knows please indicate in the caption?
::O tempora! O mores! That people could not tell which is the defunct American TV comic, and which the immortal Irish litterateur…  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.191.224 (talk) 07:24, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarification added to image. BigDuncTalk 11:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The image - which one is Behan?

message: This article is a travesty, lacking citations and replete with POV statements. Hushpuckena (talk) 05:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's detailed and comprehensive, but it lacks citations and reads like a personal essay. I'm going to add a refimprove template.  --Ef80 (talk) 18:52, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time For Revision? 

message: Wikipedia gives a lot of lip service to being an "encyclopedia" and a stickler for referencing sources. This article is an example of how Wikipedia is and does neither. None of this is sourced. A lot of it reads like pure conjecture and a fan page. I came to this page because I did not know anything about the subject. I still don't. None of this is reliable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 04:32, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Indeed. This is Wikipedia. It’s but a fanboys’ and fangirls’ playground. As a lifetime admirer of Behan’s writing, this article considerably annoyed me. But that is the age we live in, where opinion has overwhelmed fact and left it gasping and dying. I relish his prose, his vigour, his humour, but like Dylan Thomas, he was a muddled man.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.191.224 (talk) 07:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encyclopedia? 

message: Just some notes pertaining to an edit I made: Michael O'Sullivan's book, 'Brendan Behan: A Life' gives some detail of Behan's birth/ baptismal name and the name(s) he used through his life: like his father, who called himself Stephen, Brendan Behan was christened 'Francis' (the record of his birth, available in several places online, confirms this); in the same book, O'Sullivan quotes Behan, relating an anecdote from his time as a student under the Christian Brothers, referring to himself as 'Brendan Francis Aidan Behan'. Presumably the 'Aidan' was his Confirmation name, but no clarification is given. At any rate his birth name, on all available evidence, was merely 'Francis Behan', with the 'Brendan' being a name he chose to be known by.
Ashiyura (talk) 19:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

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message: Behan's official cause of death is recorded as Cardiac Arrest. This was likely a result of alcoholism, but the article does not specify it. Hanoi Road (talk) 00:33, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: He was being treated at the Meath Hospital for liver failure, not a surprise.78.17.32.83 (talk) 20:27, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart Attack