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Brendan Behan

1923 - 1964

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Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (christened Francis Behan) ( BEE-ən; Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life. In 2023 reports emerged of his allegedly sexually violent behaviour against a young New York publicist, Letty Cottin Pogrebin in the early 1960s.An Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army, Behan was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family, becoming a member of the IRA's youth organization Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brendan Behan has received more than 1,090,924 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Brendan Behan is the 3,494th most popular writer (up from 3,911th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 169th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 35

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Brendan Behan ranks 3,494 out of 5,755Before him are Paul Johnson, Giuseppe Parini, Pelagonius, Berdi Kerbabayev, Herman Wouk, and Luigi Capuana. After him are Mariano Azuela, Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Misuzu Kaneko, Frédéric Beigbeder, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, and Mikhail Koltsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Brendan Behan ranks 209Before him are Shoshana Damari, Vladimir Basov, Chang Cheh, Achille Silvestrini, James Karen, and Misael Pastrana Borrero. After him are Simeon ten Holt, Madeleine Lebeau, Jim Reeves, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Giulio Cabianca, and Barney Kessel. Among people deceased in 1964, Brendan Behan ranks 107Before him are Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Aleksander Zawadzki, Eugen Varga, Ernst Toch, Anita Malfatti, and Rudolph Maté. After him are Ary Barroso, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Jim Reeves, Giuseppe Amato, Joseph Schildkraut, and Bernhard Goetzke.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Brendan Behan ranks 140 out of 501Before him are Sally Oldfield (1947), Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Richard Montgomery (1738), Anne de Mortimer (1390), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909), and Colm Meaney (1953). After him are Pat Cox (1952), Ninette de Valois (1898), William Howard Russell (1820), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), John Sealy Townsend (1868), and Edward Sabine (1788).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Brendan Behan ranks 23Before him are Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Patrick Pearse (1879), John Banville (1945), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), and Cecil Day-Lewis (1904). After him are Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Edna O'Brien (1930), Seán O'Casey (1880), Maeve Binchy (1939), Jane Wilde (1821), and Richard Steele (1672).