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The Daily Egyptian, May 21, 1966 Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC May 1966 Daily Egyptian 1966 5-21-1966 The aiD ly Egyptian, May 21, 1966 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_May1966 Volume 47, Issue 151 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, May 21, 1966." (May 1966). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1966 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in May 1966 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. That Borstal Boy SOUTHERH ILLIHOIS UNIVERSITY Carbondal e , Illinois A Reminiscence and a Review Yol. 47 Saturdoy , May 21 , 1966 Nu mber 151 "If am anything at all, I am a man -of letters. I'm a writer, a word which does not exactly mean anything in either tl)e English, Irish or American language. But I have never seen myself as anything else, not even fro-m the age of four when my mother says that she sent me for a loaf of bread, I used to kick a piece of paper along the street in front of me so I could read it. But she didn't approve of my literary efforts and echoed the sentiments of an aunt of mine, who was the widow of the author of the Irish Na­ tional Anthem. 'May God pre­ serve us from poets andplay­ wrights,' she said. So I wrote silently, starkly, short sto­ ries, drafts of plays, and many poems." From My Brother Br..,dcr. _ Brendan Behan BRENDAN BEHAN , W,;,. , and D,unk Photo by Gregory G. P ierson EOIN O· MAHONY , Othe, I,;shm.n W.,. Ashamed .fo.Ip¥ ~l, J~6 That Bor "He decorated a pub in Paris, a drinking place, you se., and then he painted an the wall: 'Thisisthebest ••• pubinParis'." From My Broth.,- Br .... dCWI One Irishman Wasn't Ashamed of Behan By Jock McClintock Eoin O'Mahony. that bearded, He diagnosed lung cancer, and then "But the young New York Times to see a person ruining b i mself Krtnglesque I?lshman you've seen insisted at' t.ak.1ng Kavanagh to a reporter either hadn't heard of Be­ with drink.' · O'Mahony says. about the campus lately, knew Bre­ lung speCialist; be was barely saved ban, or IMs reference to Behan's John Huston, the dlreaor, once ndan Behan when the writer was in time. One lung removed. Behan presence was deleted later. Ab, poor invited Behan, his wife, and O'Ma­ earning his reputation as a tousled was always kind like that." fellow."' hony to a 40-guest dinner party. but talented man of letters. O'Mahony was introduced to Behan The writer's self- conscious ec­ "We were driven down in a lim­ irAh yes," he reminisces, "Behan by the poet and editor, HarryCraig, centricities shocked tbe people at ousine on a frosty winter's night," used to say he w~s born Ln a crowded who presented the writer with the borne as well. O'Mahony remembers • hospital. His mother, he said, was same words he had used in intro­ .. He turned up to a performance taken out qf bed to make room for ducing Dylan Thomas: "This is a of one of his plays. presumably "Behan started singing at the more Imponant patients and Behan young man with a future."' Th e Quare Fellow , in dungarees," soup." he says. The song had its was born on tbe floor. That Is tbe .. I had taken Dylan Thomas around O'Mahony says . bawdy aspects, though it wouldn't have been Behan otherwise. One story•• :' Dublin one time, drunk, and to a "You do know dungarees, don't Behan. the author of The Hostaf!,e , doctor, " 0' Mahon y sa ys. " Behan you? guest f. was rather shocked at these The Quare I' ellou and 'Borstal. Hoy , modeled himself on Thomas. They '·Yes, well, the audience was a p:(oceedings, and left as soon as was nearly as well known for his were of an age and they looked very bit astoniShed, you know. They were possible." drtnldng and carousing as for his much the ~ame.'· all In evening dress. Be han. his wife-who was of Ger­ literary works-perhaps bet t e r. The escapades of both men when "Next time they came in casual man ex (t act ion-and O'Mahony o'Mahony says Behan consciously they visited {he U.S. outraged some clothes. But Behan was immaculate­ drove off later. cultivated his 1m age as the proto­ of our hardshelled Indigenes. Both ly dressed then, of course." "Several doors had to be unlocked typical bell-raising Irishman. drank a bit more than was good Behan had a sly and bawdy sense With Germanic thoroughness when O'Mahony. the dark-horse candi­ for them, both were erratic. Behan of humor that delighted English and we arrived,' O'Mahony recalls. date for president of lrei3Jld what might leap to the stage in the mid­ Irish visitors to Paris in the 1940s. .. And when we were inside Behan's Is at SIU to advise on the purchase dle of a performance of one of .. Behan went to France then, and comme nt was: fThey're nor our of Irish books and to comment on his plays; Tbomas might show up was very hard up," O'Mahony says. son. you know ... • tbose currently held In the Rare swacked at a reading of his poetry, . ' But he could always earn 10 guineas Book Room, bas a bottomless fund or not show up at all. with painting, you know-housepaint­ Daily Egyptian of anecdotes and Bebaniana. "Ob, Behan was always on ex­ Ing. In He leans back a chair as he hibition aa an Irishman,'· O'Mahony "He decorated c. pub in Paris, Publiliihed In lhe OC" pUH"nenl of Jour~lism tells them, scratcbes his head Ln T ue8day thrCHIgh Salu rcU y Ihroughoul rhe ""hooJ says. "It ' annoyed the Irish very a drinking pl£ce, you see, and then yelr e llcepl during Univc r l'lIy vaealion ~r iod " . remembrance or twirls a lock: much; tbey were very ashamed of e ll ll minariQn week" . ~ "~ l6ftal holldayl' by "OUrh ­ he painted on the wall: 'This is e rn illinoJ ... UnlversllY. Carbondale. IlJinoi!< n1'901 . (tbere's no other worCl:) of his long him. t the best ••• pub in Paris." secori'll cla"s peu.tage paid at C lrbond.alc. llii. white hair. His pink mouth moves HTwas in 1943, I think, that I nois 02901. mysteriously behind the Hemlng­ "The English came there a lot Pollele .. of The Egypll ~n a~e I"c! re "' JIOn.'"lbllhy last saw Behan. He came to a lecture and it was a very popular place. Of Inc editors. ~ talemenl !< pubh"' hcd here do nol wayian beard and the brown eyes I was giVing on Ireland at the Wal­ ReCe"" a rily reflect IN' opinion 01 the admlnllnra wander, but alertly. The French came too, bur of course lion o r any cle panmt:nI of Inc- UnlvenllY. dorf -Astoria. they didn'( know-didn't care to, I F. dilo rial Ind bIH' il"OC "" office,. locate d In Build . OJ Behan was always very good to Ing T· -IS . Fiscal offi cer. Howard II . I..ong. Tele­ phoroc 4:5 3-23:5 -1 . Patrick Kavanagh. the poet, and <I I said, • I'm very flattered think-what it was about." E c1Il ori~ 1 Conference: Timothy w . .... yer s. E velyn one time as Behan visited him, and honored to have Hrendan Behan Behan's drinking was his big prob­ M . .... ugus lin. Fred W. Reyer. John W. Fpper ­ here today: and a shudder went helfner. Pamela J. GleJlon. John M. r.ood r lch. Behan's natural intelligence spotted lem, as it was with Dylan Thomas. F r ank 'i. ~k l'"",,n m ilh. Fdward A. Rapenl. Rob,' r! that Kavanagh was in poor health. through the audience. "It always distresses me very much D. Re inc ke. It otx- rl F . Smith. and I.aurel We rth. stal Boy Behan the Writer, Behan the Brawling Drunk A Review by Ted Boyle, Department oaf Engl ish Confessions of an Iri sh R ebel . by not even fr o m the age of fOUT when made on his la s t visit to Ame rica. human situatio n. especia ll y that of Brendan Behan. New York : Bernard my .mother says that when s he se nr Apparentl y a{ this time Behan was Brendan Behan. In Ba rstal 8 0), Gei s Assoc iates, 1966. 245 pp. $4.95. me for a loaf of ,bread, 1 used to too constantly drunk {a write. but come dy was a n opening o ut. a window ki ck a piece of paper along the he could always talk. The ma nne r through which Behan could see life My Brother B renda!JJ by Dominic s treet in front of me so I could in which Confessions came into more clearl y; in Confessions, comedy Behan. New York: SftIlon and Schu s ­ read it. Bu t s he didn't a pprove of being, (hen, is a panial e xcuse fo r is an opaque screen dropped by a te r, 1966. 159 pp. $4.50. my lite r ary efforts and echoed the its lack of coherence, its l arg~ l y frightened man who is alraid to looi< sentime nts of a n aunr of mine, who s uperficial pic ture of Be han.
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