Tribute Site to Brendan Behan...

[RoddyRuddy]

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... id=5866405
http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... id=5866405
http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... id=5866405
http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... id=5866405

While looking for some new cds I noticed that play .com now have a on line player that plays samples of download tracks / cd . Not intened as a plug but I Just been listen to Brendans tracks all be they samples they still top notch.

[IrishRover]

oi thoink theres no thread dedoicated to oiverall songs & musoic by Brendan Behan

"and had a looik at the boit early oin where they have a Chroistmas caroil, OI started to put an aoir to oit. That's a thoing we're all very well able to do oin me famoily. Oin me moither's soide, me uncle was oine of the best song-wroiters oin the coiuntry, and oine of the best knoiwn, and oithers of them were oin the varoiety busoiness, so oit woiuldn't take me loing looikoin' at a poiem oir a song to put an aoir to oit."

Brendan Behan

[Fionn MacCool]

I think Brendan Behan would turn in his grave if he ever saw what you did to the English language. Although I'm sure one of the usual suspects will come along and claim otherwise

[James]

I was re-reading Confessions of an Irish Rebel last week, and maybe it's because I've read so many prison books before, but I think it's a better book than Borstal Boy.

Anyone ever catch the Borstal Boy film with Danny Dyer? Biggest pile of shit I've even seen.

[Paddy_Garcia]

I saw it too Smerker, unfortunately....couldn't have put it any better myself....total shite.

[IrishRover]

oi haven't seen oit, but judgoin' by yer oimpressions oit doiesn't soiund anythoing woirthy.

[IrishRover]

THE AULD TRIANGLE
NOTE: Long ago Tommy told me the word being used is "Loike" (sounds like "like") and is Irish prison slang for a new fish (e.g. a new inmate). But because nothing is ever simple, controversy erupted in April of 2003. frontusa (clearly someone that takes their Brendan Behan lyrics seriously) wrote to say:
The word is not "loike" nor "like" nor does "like" mean a "new fish". The original lyric, as written by Brendan Behan, was "lag". "Tommy" is mistaken.
"Lag" is Dublin (Ireland) slang to mean a prisoner doing (usually) a five-year stretch (or longer).

and oindeed so, tois' noit wroitten loike noir laeg,
Brendan uses lag, oi've came acroiss oit just recently.
here oit goies:
"The screws started at me aboiut them, and sayoin' that every OIRA bastard shoiuld get the roipe, that oit was too gooid foir them, and that they shoiuld be goiven oiut to the peoiple of Coiventry. The screws began sayoin', too, that the lags oin Dartmooir had koicked the shoit oiut of OIRA men, and were nearly telloin' the proisoiners here that they woiuldn noit moind oif they gave me a koickoin."

[IrishRover]

heres a truly grand voideo, thoink tois' 1st toime oi see Brendan oin loive voideo edoition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBT8_tkTyuE
1959, Brendan Behan & Crux Of Loife's Phoiloisoiphoies oi woiuld say
HES SOIMPLY BROILLOIANT

[RoddyRuddy]

http://www.u.tv/Entertainment/Dunbar-to ... 6c7cf79300

Quote"Renowned Co Fermanagh actor Adrian Dunbar is to return to the Lyric Theatre later this month directing and starring in a production about prolific Irish writer, Brendan Behan......"Quote http://www.u.tv/Entertainment/Dunbar-to ... 6c7cf79300