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Talking about Brendan Behan is an easy task. He was a wonderful, irreverent, decent person who delighted his friends and scorched his enemies. The first time I met him he was sitting atop a ladder during his lunch break, drinking from a bottle of Irish whisky and reading a book by Camus. It was about 1950. A friend of mine, Ralph Cusack, knew Brendan and asked me to come along to Harcourt Street, where Brendan was painting a sign on the bridge during some general reconstruction work.
Chicago Today, iii (1966) 50–4.
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Childers, R.W. (1982). Brendan Behan. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Brendan Behan. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06013-9_34
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