‘THE HOLY HOUR: A REQUIEM FOR BRENDAN BEHAN’

Museum of Literature Ireland, www.moli.ie By Donal Fallon This year marks the centenary of the birth not only of Brendan Behan but also of his contemporary and friend Anthony Cronin. In one of the most celebrated memoirs of twentieth-century Ireland, Dead as doornails, Cronin painted a vivid and often tragic picture of bohemian Dublin in ... Read more

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