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Bookmark or Share- Borstal Boy (film) - WikipediaBorstal Boy is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Peter Sheridan, based on the 1958 autobiographical novel of the same name by Brendan Behan. In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War.
- Borstal Boy - WikipediaBorstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners. [1]
- Borstal Boy (2000) - IMDbBorstal Boy: Directed by Peter Sheridan. With Shawn Hatosy, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney, Patricia Leventon. Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
- Borstal Boy movie review & film summary (2002) - Roger EbertThe Behan of “Borstal Boy” (Shawn Hatosy) is another person altogether, an idealistic young lad who naively goes to England on a mission for the IRA, is arrested, is sent to juvenile prison (“borstal”) and there learns to love those he thinks he hates, including the English (through the warden’s daughter) and “queers” (through his ...
- Borstal Boy - WikiSummariesBorstal Boy is a compelling autobiographical novel by Irish writer Brendan Behan, first published in 1958. Set in the early 1940s, the story unfolds against the backdrop of World War II and Ireland’s struggle for independence.
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