Behan, Brendan Francis. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Behan, Brendan Francis

SYLLABICATION:	Be·han
PRONUNCIATION:	bn
DATES:	1923–1964
	Irish writer whose early association with the Irish Republican Army and experiences in prison influenced his works, including the play The Quare Fellow (1954) and the autobiographical Borstal Boy (1958).


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