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Brendan Behan, born 9 February 1923 in Dublin. At sixteen he was arrested in Liverpool while carrying explosives for the IRA, and whilst in Borstal (boys prison) he wrote his book the ‘Borstal Boy’. He returned to the IRA in Ireland, again arrested, this time for shooting a policeman, he served only four years of a fourteen- year sentence. He died in Meath on 20 March 1964. A final word from Rene MacColl in the Daily Express ‘Too young to die, but too drunk to live”.
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