Brendan Behan, 1923-1964

The Quare Fellow: A Comedy-Drama. London: Methuen, 1956; New York: Grove Press, 1956, limited issue of 100 copies and trade issue.

The Big House: A Play. New York: Blyth Hill Morrow [s.d., but after 1957].

Borstal Boy. London: Hutchinson, 1958; New York: Knopf, 1959.

An Giall. Dublin: An Chomhairle Náisiúnta Drámaiochta, [1958?]; translated and revised as The Hostage, London: Methuen, 1958; New York: Grove Press, 1959.

Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook, with drawings by Paul Hogarth. New York: Bernard Geis, 1962; London: Hutchinson, 1962.

Hold Your Hour and Have Another, with decorations by Beatrice Behan. London: Hutchinson, 1963; Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

The Scarperer. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964; London: Hutchinson, 1966.

Brendan Behan's New York, with drawings by Paul Hogarth. New York: Bernard Geis, 1964; London: Hutchinson, 1964.

Confessions of an Irish Rebel. London: Hutchinson, 1965; New York: Bernard Geis, 1966.

Moving Out and A Garden Party: Two Plays, edited by Robert Hogan. Dixon, CA: Proscenium Press, 1967.

The Wit of Brendan Behan, compiled by Sean McCann. London: Leslie Frewin, 1968.

Life Styles: Poems, by Ulick O'Connor, with nine translations from the Irish of Behan. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1973.

Richard's Cork Leg, edited, with additional material, by Alan Simpson. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973; New York: Grove Press, 1974.

The Complete Plays. New York: Grove Press, 1978; London: Methuen, 1978.

Poems and Stories, edited by Denis Cotter. Dublin: Liffey Press, 1978. 500 copies.

After the Wake: Twenty-One Prose Works Including Previously Unpublished Material, edited by Peter Fallon. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1981. Contains: The Last of Mrs. Murphy, I Became a Borstal Boy, The Execution, The Confirmation Suit, After the Wake, A Woman of No Standing, The Catacombs, and The Same Again, Please.

Poems, and a Play in Irish. Dublin: Gallery Books, 1981.

Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, edited by E. H. Mikhail. 2 volumes. London: Macmillan, 1982; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982.

Letters of Brendan Behan, edited by E. H. Mikhail. London: Macmillan, 1992; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.

The King of Ireland's Son, illustrated by P. J. Lynch. London: Anderson, 1996; New York: Orchard Books, 1997.

The Dubbalin Man. Dublin: A. & A. Farmer, 1997.

The Sayings of Brendan Behan, edited by Aubrey Dillon-Malone. London: Duckworth, 1997.

 

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