This privileging of Dublin’s significance isn’t always a case of daggers drawn. Sometimes it reveals itself in humour ...

When he wasn’t behind bars, Irish writer and nationalist Brendan Behan was usually bellied up to a bar. Odds are, he would’ve felt right at home in the Jamaica Plain pub named for him.

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Cold February morning? We’ll begin with Brendan Behan for some light relief. Behan was holding court in a Dingle pub one time when the barman nodded at another customer sitting alone at the ...

Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives.

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