Brendan Behan by Éamon Gilbert

Brendan Behan
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I dont know this infamous person, but I do like the portraint drawing Eamon. Brandan has an interesting face or maybe its the way you have drawn it, either way, it appeals to me. Very nice.

Thaks for your comment Carol, Brendan was a writer from Dublin, he wrote plays such as "The Quare Fella", The Borstal Boy", "The Hostage" as well as some other book and also songs. He was also a member of the I.R.A.and spent some time in prison in England for this. The reason he is "infamous" is because he was very fond of a drink and there are many stories about Brendan and his drunken nights out in Dublin as well as London and New York, The drink eventually killed him in the 1960's, but he is

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Pencil drawing of infamous Irish writer Brendan Behan

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