A Hungry Feeling - The Life And Death Of Brendan Behan.
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- A Hungry Feeling - The Life And Death Of Brendan Behan.
Initial release: 2 May 1988 (New York)
Director: Allan Miller
Producer: Allan Miller
Cinematography: Don Lenzer
Executive producer: Walter Scheuer
When I grew up in Crumlin on Saul Road, the Behan’s lived around the corner on Kildare Rd. What a crew they were.
15:40 "it wouldn't have stopped her, it wouldn't have stopped her." Takes swing of Guinness. One of the most unintentionally funny things I've ever seen in a biography, also very telling
The 'ism is so bad over there that there's none hookin' cure for it, other than the having of another drink!!
If you wonder where Ronnie Drew and Shane MacGowan drew their inspiration and love of humanity (and boisterousness) from, look no further than this fine gentlemen right here!
We thought it was great,, as kids ,,,to walk down Kildare road to look at the plaque that was placed over the door of Brendan Behan's home. He was well respected in our family. I'm going to have a Guinness now , here's to Brendan Behan, ☘
I found this by complete chance. It's an amazing piece of work. Thank you so much for uploading it. Brendan Behan was a complex and troubled man, but a man born with copious talent. A genius.. The likes of 'the mesmerising challenging and often obnoxious pub raconteur' have no place in this politically correct world, and we are the poorer for it. Behan's life reads like a movie script. God bless and keep you Mr Behan, your work stands equal to Yeats and Joyce. Ireland and the world salute you.
He was an interesting writer and poet, but the likes of Yeats and Joyce? Seamus Heaney and Padraic Colum were far better contemporary poets. Behan was one of those great talents who chose to squander his gift on self indulgence, while being cheered by foolish and wicked hangers on.
Dylan Thomas excelled as a poet..... And without being obnoxious when drunk..... He was untrustworthy and u could not trust with him your wife or lend him any money, as A. J. P. Taylor, eminent historian found out to his cost but never shunned him .... He had a social passport here and the U S... he was a brilliant reconteur and in heavy demand at any social event and party even though he screwed everyone there.... Their wifes and their wallets...... Some troubadour called Zimmerman took his name and has the effrontary to deny he took it from Thomas........
He was a genius!
@brianmccarthy5557 Perhaps not exactly the choice. As a child, developing his interior life and his talent alongside the encouragement of his grandmother , along with the drink. All this in a drinking culture with far less comprehension of addiction.
Don’t know why, I’ve been from pillar to post today, trying to write, but I was directed to this, I needed to see it. God bless you are finally at peace! X
Happy to see this great documentary once again - first seen back in '88 at the Film Forum on a whim (saw his rebel rousing image in the advert) and, may I say, Ireland is most blessed to have him as one of its own... Shane MacGowan is great, but there is no one (ever) like Behan!
I've watched this twice in more than 12 years, and never tier of the pugnacious yet poetical, the loutish yet lordly character of Behan.
And I am lucky number 9....the world is sinking fast...
@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada Get your English game up, my Culchie brother. Your sentence is slang Gaelic,and said in a kind of Yola. Alliteration, like iambic meter, is natural to those of us who speak English as a mother tongue.
I have just watched The Borstal Boy enjoyed it so much.l do remember this outrageous man from my youth.Funny how so many brilliant people burn themselves out in the prime of their lived
What you say is true but if those people took life easy and took best care of themselves then they would not have produced such brilliant works, the great greats often burn them themselves in a short time
He had of a head that was a big bomb casing and a cigarette that was a short fuse. Add the gelegnite(booze) and then, no dictionary could survive the explosion of wit!!
I found Brendan Behan when I read borstal boy many years ago, brilliant man.
You will enjoy confessions of an irish rebel so!
@@patscanlan2678 two classics
@@ljrees1721 Also: "Hold Your Hour and Have Another" - great stuff!
I found him through Borstal Boy, as well. I was sentenced to 6 months house arrest for fighting when I was 15. My grandfather had recently died and I found a copy of Borstal Boy in his books. Reading his experiences in borstal helped me get through the court dates and all of the hours alone
I find the wise words of Allen Ginsberg particularly remarkable in this video
Thank you for posting. Excellent documentary.
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for posting!
This is epic thanks for posting 👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪💙💙
to my dad daniel murphy r i p ex old ira man he rocked we didn't get along but he rocked
This made me laugh and cry. I love him, bless his beautiful heart. An absolutely beautiful man. xxxxxx 💙💙
Life is what it is, we always want more of the great things that happen or we discover in our life. I often wonder about the great works Phil Lynott could have produced if he had lived longer the same goes for Brendan Behan and Shane McGeown, Those three men were supreme masters of their art and works and yet they could have done much more if the demon drink and drugs had not damaged their lives. I also understand that their lifestyles help them to produce their great works. We are the very lucky ones to be able to listen, read and study the works of Phil, Brendan Shane and many of the other great Irish literary geniuses of years gone by
The lady speaking at 10.08 said Brendan squandered his talent.
I don't think that's a fair comment to make. He couldn't deal with his talent or even himself for that matter.
He done the best he could..
He did in doof hook all, a lot of the time. The drink walks all over you but the twelve steps can put a cure on you that no bottle ever could.
Excellent upload. To be listed in the same vein as Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and Kavanagh, is a tribute to the fire in his belly, created and nurtured by his wife and extended family. Each and every Irishman, be he 1st or 10th generation, has a bit of Behan in him. 🇮🇪☘💚
He was nothing like Wilde, Joyce, Yeats or Kavanagh. He was a drunk, like that other drunk George Best, vile.
@@maryrich9260 i must read your next book, Mary. Better still, I'll watch your football video first.
@@paulustarsus you must like obnoxious vulgarians
@@maryrich9260 And Kavanagh was known to be a contrary, grumpy old man. Yeats had an unhealthy and worrying obsession with a woman who didn't want him. Joyce abandoned his daughter to drown in her own insanity. How can you disregard Behan for his affliction but accept the others for all their faults?
Glad I stumbled on this, I vaguely remembered his name, probably gleaned from the Daily Express, "ugly drunk" sums it up. How wrong my parents were....
My uncles Murty and Micheal were in Mounjoy locked up with Brendan Behan and other patriots back in approx 1942 to 1946 my uncles and others broke out but they couldn't let Brendan know as he was for ever talking and gossiping in his beautiful way around the jail house.....My Uncle Murty broke his ankle jumping off the wall he got back to Cork and in hiding until the amnesty which left Behan out early the lads who broke out were still on the run (pardon pun) my Uncle used to to be brought to visit his mother (my Grandmother) and family in the North Main street up over there grocery shop my Uncle used to dress up as an old Cork woman and two lads one on each side would link arms and walk him to the shop in the night one night when they openend the door they heard about 3 men talking and shouting and my Grandmother talking back if not crying so they hurried back out the door and away they went and hid in the lane way nexdoor one of the lads went up then to see if it were the Garda looking for Uncle Murty but on waking up into the kitchen whos only there by the fire and sitting at the table but Brendan Behan he had been reciting his latest play to my Grandmother to see what she might of thought of it and of course playing the parts of the 2 0r 3 characters himself he had my Grandmother in hysterics she was crying laughing at Brendan & Co ....😂. When Brendan later in the early 60's would come to Cork to visit Uncle Murty out the Magazine road he'd always turn up adhock like as most people did back in the day as the Texting machines were'ent around then ofcourse !! and if no one was in he would have a slash in the porch so when the family got back they'ed always know Brendan had been to visit...😂😂😂😂. ahh Happy days where are they gone ? not far I tell ou there in my head mush there in my head....☘🏴☠⚓
Thank God for my Uncle Phillip, who introduced Brendan Behan's works to me when I was a lad...I've loved every different bit of Brendan's works ever since...long may the Auld Triangle go jingle jangle! Rae Jeffs, his brother Brian, his wife Beatrice ffrench Salkfield all heroes of my youth
Me too Sir.
Oops I mean Lady.
This is my first introduction to the true Man himself,heard of him as a kid in the 80's but didn't know how gifted and talented he was,not the mad drunk roaring and shouting,think that could of been any number of my Uncles in Co.Wicklow but they wasn't gifted unless you included drinking, there'd be a few contenders their, Brendan what an Irish legend and im only starting to get to know the Man ☘️💯
Great documentary. I've read so much by and about Brendan Behan since the 60's and can't believe I haven't seen this before!
Born a hundred years old today,will live on for eternity,
What a brilliant man thank you 💚☘️💚🇮🇪
Always reminds me of Shane McGowan. Two great troubled addics. RIP IRELAND 🇮🇪 🥁
Great insight
What an upload! Cheers for this
The man was a genius
Many thanks. The Professional Micks are a right pain.
This is perfect, I’m of Celt blood and it seems old Brendan wasn’t the only up on the drink, I’m no exception
It's a shame there isn't more about this guy
If you're a reader, you can still get Behan's books from Amazon. Boreal boy: The Irish rebel & After the wake. I highly recommend them. Very poignant and hysterically funny at the same time!
Brilliant 👏
One of the greats of Irish literature sleep well brendan
Brilliant 👍
Kind of like Johnathan Swift, who despised the generality of mankind, yet had dear friends. Brendan hated the English en masse, yet had English friends.
Yea soo many whites Dnt like blacks but MANY ARE QUICK TO SAY " IM NOT RACIST I HAVE 4 BLACK FRIENDS"🤔🤦🏾🤷🙅🏿🤐
I got me smokes in the Joy courtesy of a young fellah named Cahill who squirrelled into the holding cell & squirrelled back out again !!!
"I'm a Nurse..." That will stay with me till I die. Shame all these likes aren't subscribing. The big TV companies should have shows like this instead of crap like This Morning,5th rate celebrity shows etc.
love this too bad my dad wasnt alive to see this
What a ledgend Rest in peace Brendan
Massive, Mrs Brennan!
A.GENIUS BRENDAN R I P AMEN ❤
His brother Dominic Behan wrote.. Song the Patriot Game...... Which Bob Dylan aka Zimmerman, lifted the song ____With god on our side....
I know. I used to work with Domanics wife, Josaphine, In an Oxfam shop in Glasgow. Domanic was long gone, but she always hated Bob Dylan for taking that song. She said there was others Dylan 'stole' too.
Dominic wrote the bells of he'll to
Songwriters have been borrowing and stealing from songwriters since the beginning of time. Don't try to tell me Dominic never 'lifted' a melody or a phrase ... or more ..... And that doesn't diminish my great respect for the man as a songwriter.
@@thomaslogue7773 Claimed that one, too, did he? That was quite an accomplishment, since the song goes back to WWI at least .....
Glen Hansard and friends (Irish) tribute to Brendan Behan !
Glen Hansard’s Grandmother was a Dublin ....... Behan !
The fruit does not fall far from the tree .
Jesus, but the drink aged him...
He drank late and wrote early, he lived as much as a regular 80 year old
Thank you so much for uploading this. Can anyone please tell me what the song is at 11:54
"Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn Cé Hí".Or "For Ireland I'd not tell her name".
Brilliant! Thanks.
@@TheHarryAdam Or "For Ireland I'd Not Tell the Name of that Song".
the compliments pass when the quality meet
Somebody, please tell me about the dramatisation of Borstal Boy at 22:00. Where can I see it? Was it a full feature?
My sanity depends on it!!
That looked like a young Patrick McGoohan starring in it
It's a full movie, a young Danny Dyer plays Brendans friend in it. It's fairly shite.
Great man from Mrs dowd
Not a word about him being bisexual...I still love him
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There has never been any solid evidence of this. Dear me, what is it with you liberal weirdos always claiming this about any and every famous person?
Where did you hear that? Dermot ferriter? At best I’d imagine he had a homsesexual encounter once or twice our foreign. who gives a fuck.
It makes no difference to me ..the man is iconic ...i dont care how he got his sexual pleasures ....its fuckin nothing to do with me or anyone else ...just sayin
@@charlesmaximus9161 Ulick O'Connor writes about it in his biography of the man.
What bar were the interviews and singing held in?
A comical genius and true patriot
my great-grandmothers maiden name was behan but pronounced bain
What might have been..
Brendan, in the quare fellow, their is a english, dignity in our putting you to death, look how humain our justice dispatches our justice.
who is the red-headed actress at 1:00:15 ?
Looks like he could be Jimmy Nails dad.
Definitely not to be mentioned in the same sentence. Jimmy ‘up my own arse nail’ definitely a prick without a stick. Also he’s an English man
Jasus,the whole family was a demon for the drink 🍷
Nine.
Enough said.
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As she takes a swig of the plain
Gwan the Irish!
Does anybody know who the narrator was? I feel like I know the voice but I can't place it, it is driving me mad.
Liam Clancy
@@liammckenna4084 Thank you.
Boy, did Shane McGowan completely copy this fellow.
Except McGowan has trouble writing his name
Every artist bases themselves on people or things they admire
@@terencethomas7599Shane's lasted much longer than Behan and his writing is prolific and lovely. Only an animal couldn't recognize this fact
I'm just grateful I don't get that bloody drunk!!!
They are all ghosts now 🧱
Just watched utube needs some help learning to spell properly ..beloved BB what a man what a man what a man, I am watching or i am listening to and listening too and reading between the lines Chuka ur la
Dylan Thomas killed himself with drink but managed not to be obnoxious when drunk.... And was arguably one of the greatest poets of the 20th century..... There appeared to be prejudice against Thomas as he was not found a place in Poets Corner
until President Jimmy Carter on visit to Westminster was appalled not find Thomas 's place there in the Corner...... He was subsequently found a place.
Dead at 39 after allegedly downing 18 American measured whiskies.... In NY bar....
I would have rather listened to Dylan in a pub than be half insulted by slobbering Brendan.... Two different types Celt both alcoholic and dead by excessive intake.... Dylan dead b4 he reached middle age... Just! Also Behan preferred to be showing off drunk in NY whereas Thomas really spent more time in homeland of South Wales
Rather confusingly given your thesis Dylan Thomas died in New York. Not from alcoholism but pneumonia.
It's hilarious that you intend to give literary criticism but refuse to use proper punctuation. (translated... hilarious that you... criticism... not use... punctuation)