I'm an unfortunate Irish-American who just discovered this amazing man. He did so much good. So sorry his life was cut short by alcohol. I'm so happy to have found these interviews. He actually reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, another brilliant man who was also an alcoholic.
I've just finished reading Blessed Brendan's life story. He was without doubt the most qualified Irish man in history, Life long love affair with Alcohol, escapades with the IRA, gifted writer, racounteur extraordinary, jouvneile delinquent, political prisoner, author, playwright, song writer and singer, I only hope I survive long enough to be half as good an Irish man
But the Indians slaughtered each other along religious lines when Britain left. And very little progress has been made for the millions of poor. But they prospered in UK.
Brendan Behan was a very gifted man who's life was cur short by drink...but I often wonder would he have written such marvelous material if he wasn't a heavy drinker, it's known that alcohol can release the creativity in some people before eventually destroying it.
Brendan Behan the Worker Republican said ( 3 things you must be wary of a bulls horn a horses hoff and an upper class English mans tongue...... 🔑☘️💚🇮🇪🙏🏻
Just shows the arrogance of them back then & when Brendan spoke of the soldier killed with an Irish name the Brit laughs as he said "he must have been Irish haha" Brendan replies "No, he was English" to wipe the smile off his face.
@Snedger read more about Behan, English TV regarded him as much more than a drunk (which he admitted to being) They offered him huge money for those days to appar on chat shows which were the talk of the day. He was a very accomplishd playright, author, songwriter and humourist. He was everry bit as talented as Dylan Thomas who held him in great regard.Being an alcoholic certainly did not make him the eejit you would suggest. I and every other Irishman I know never regard him as embarassingt,
Some like to win arguments by guile like that imperialist scoundrel cruel mocking supremacist social Darwinism classust genocidal apologist ect then there's the irish man with no tolerance for all the snyde insults b s and lies propaganda. and goes for the truth. As simple as that get them Brendan. Erin go deo Erin go deas as Erin go brách
I wonder if these people knew just how blessed they were to sit in the presence of a genius? Doubt it. Behan was amazing. Dont take this for granted people.
I've been to India. There are thrones in forts that have holes in them. Why? They used to have gems and precious stones in them. You might find those gems in the crown jewels in London. You can still hear young Brits today saying "We left them a great railway system" and yer man here saying "We left a great civil service". The arrogance continues until today. Up the Ra! I wish the poor would stop backing up the rich. It will never happen, though. Some poor people think they're rich. The rich just giggle and continue. Maith thu, Brendan! Blaggards 'R' Us. We never wanted to be, but were forced to be.
I was born and raised in England and the general attitude was that that the English were the superior and every one else were foreigners In the early sixties we had no Pakistanis to speak of so we had to use Catholics . Little did I know at the time that my mothers family were Black Irish ,my grandmother,and Ashkanazi. I assume they met on the back of the bus . .The kids in me mams family were sent to prossie school to avoid a murder. I grew up believing I was white even though this was in NE England ,I was gently introduced to our family as to the Irish side but the Jewish history was not revealed to me till my thirties and I was old enough to stand the shock Luckilly for me my fathers side is Danes Law Yorkshire so there is no Sasanach in my DNA Fuck the British army
My dad saw him host a jazz event at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto a couple days before (or after I'm not sure as my dad is no longer with us) this was filmed.
Beaverbrook had a great deal of say in what info people on the big island of Gt Britain could have............people in Gt Britain still say 'Southern Ireland'! =:oO
All Brendan was doing was defending his native land which was poor at the time and wasn´t helped by the fact that England, a much richer power, completely ignored Ireland when Ireland most need their help during the famine years of the mid-19th century. BTW i am English!
They did not ignore them they caused it It was not a famine there was food It was removed by food removal regiments . Rents a taxes were so high the hadn’t the money to eat . British policy was can’t beat them we will starve them out and out to America . Replaced them with sheep they cost more
Too rite Finn if anyone believes we just ate spuds are totally numbnuts this country produced and still does most vegetables and livestock but the imperialist British took everything else when the potato blight hit and they took everything else out to feed there navy and soldiers near and far this caused a near totall genocide of our whole island of the IRISH ...yet still we prospered in America Australia and any country we imagrated too without force but from hard work and a solid backbone...I have many British friends and love them dearly and they are horrified by what their country done to us and called it the potato famine its a ridiculous moot point anymore but one day we may stand over them and I GUARANTEE we'd put the hand out and clothe feed and nurture them back to health esp if America got obliterated.... Fun fact the somliians and a South American tribal king of the chaktaw nation heard of our plight and sent ship loads of gold from thousands of miles away while the British a 100-150 milles away looked on and done nothing....it does make you SICK....that's why we set up trocaire and other charities to help those who helped us in famine days. Another fun fact I'd love to punch the living shite outta that English wagon with his silver spoon rammed up his bottom🤬
@@davokelly7876 The Choctaw Nation you're referring to is actually from North America, from my home state of Oklahoma here in the US. I'm a member of the Cherokee Nation who are ethnically identical to the Choctaws.
@@Garrett1240 my bad no offence meant, and thankyou to your people for helping us in our time of need! What I know of my history it's the countries that suffer the most these days (like Ethiopia, Sudan, Mali, West indies and native Americans) that helped us during that famine. Our country have set up charities and given as much as possible back over the many years to these countries since. Godbless
what was chris eubank doing there always liked brendan just a likeable man, wrote some very cutting funny poems, check out [ lord gough goes up in he park] agreed eire an insult its IRELAND 32 COUNTIES
@yam500 Good man, BUt Behan would have, he used to sargue for fun. There's a big b&w framed picture of him in a tiny bar in my home town. Of him seated in that bar, pint of Guiness in hand. Underneath is a hand written note saying "I've just arrived in Canada, there was a big sign saying 'drink Canada Dry' I'm doing my best"
Two of my uncles who were taxi drivers used to drive Brendan home from the pub in Dublin. My grandmother chose my first name, she also went to hear Michael Collins give a speech in London. That’s why I’ve got the initials BMW :-)
@maddogmcglinchey perhaps your memory is not long enough given that the histories of Britain and Ireland have been intertwined for over 2 millenia of mutual trade, war, and friendship. I say this as an Irish person with a bit of historical perspective rather than the propaganda you slurp up with relish.
The seed of a good idea is there in what Behan is saying but he is so inarticulate that it is hard to follow him. The black guy seems the most intelligent of all of them.
Let me get this right, the proof of a collapsed civilization is grass overgrowing on roads? I am now nervously reassessing my views of Basildon. This lot would do better to stick to Match of The Day.
We've never been free, the so called free state are blue shirts under British rule. Just because they took the Republican flag and took the IRA slogan for the modern day Irish army, doesn't mean anything.
Millions of Indians died at the hands of their own countrymen when India was given independence. Ethnic hatred and religious intolerance ruled India which was to break apart in three seperate countries. So Britain did not leave India in a better place when they withdrew.
You weren't listening, British imperialists divided the country,they condition the people so they are easy to rule,the problems were created before they left intentionally by greedy western right wing capitalists. They are doing it to us now. Peace.
So true England has how to say it mildly...lakes of blood in their hands for instance handling Boer civilians during 2nd Boer war..terrible crimes India like starving people to death by rationing rice and so on.
who are the other two panellists - i.e. the irate guy on the left of Brendan and the smugly bemused gentleman on the far right next to the African fellow?
@FreePress1000 You're not far wrong there FreePress. The English bloke comes across as a condesending aul colonialist who mourns the passing of the Brit Empire. Are there people like him still around? (I'm afraid to answer my own question!!)
I thought that English fella had a point originally about a self governing country, but he says that Britain didn't rule with an iron rod in India when in April 1919 a troop of British soldiers under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer opened fire on a crowd of non violent protesters. Piss off. Im not against the regular English people, but this fella is a clown.
How preposterous for a colonizing country to even suggest "giving Independence" to another Sovereign country minding it's own business! Just remember the genocide of 200 MILLION Native Americans minding their own business too. The railroads served the British Empire and stayed behind because they couldn't take them along with them! 😂Civilization as a gift of sorts doesn't come into it. Plundet is the key word. A sewage system would have made far more sense. But you needed engineer.Sir Charles Bazalgette in London to do that when millions died of Cholera in a reeking London. Now they're dying off like flies in India besides endemic hunger. The Romans actually improved conditions with roads and thermal baths and didn't interfere as long as taxes were paid to them and soldiers joined their army. That's how they lasted so long.
That English guy was obnoxious. And Brendan Behan was obvioulsy not on form, otherwise he would have torn the English guy to peices, instead of just rambling on in the way that he did.
'fighting words' from BB?????...........sorry to say that he's inarticulate here ..........can't hold his focus or keep to a point and just makes inane comments of a biased nature; non-sequiturs throughout his comments. In this discussion I would put him on a par with the arrogant pro British commentator; not necessarily of the same view as the pro-British commentator but of an equally vacuous nature. On the other hand it is refreshing to hear the other two panel members making issue-based arguments in support of the question of an imperial power offering anything to the occupied peoples. Listen to the realistic and experienced comments of the person who has truly lived what it is to be a member of an oppressed people and the person who argues the question of how and when one can decide if a nation is ready for independence (arrogance) each smoking! cf Nelson Mandela. I'm afraid in this instance I put Brendan and the guy on the far right in the same boat but on opposing sides. The others have my vote here.....................and I'm a Dub with a Behan background!
+owen wall Behan has not upset me and you make an assumption in stating that. I think that Behan had a lot to offer but he does not do himself justice in his contribution to this discussion. It is easy to be 'straight to the point' when you have 'a few on board' which I think, for Behan, is the case here.
Nothing wrong with toad in the hole, Brendan, and at least it's dependable. Never heard of the great toad in the hole famine resulting in millions of deaths and mass exodus to the USA, have you ? You chose spuds, so don't knock us poor English with our sad, poor diets and lives !
Ola Tunji the drummer gets great credit for music genius. To see him and Behan together is a treat.
I'm an unfortunate Irish-American who just discovered this amazing man. He did so much good. So sorry his life was cut short by alcohol. I'm so happy to have found these interviews. He actually reminds me of Christopher Hitchens, another brilliant man who was also an alcoholic.
I'm not unfortunate for being Irish. I'm unfortunate for not knowing this great man until now.
I've just finished reading Blessed Brendan's life story. He was without doubt the most qualified Irish man in history, Life long love affair with Alcohol, escapades with the IRA, gifted writer, racounteur extraordinary, jouvneile delinquent, political prisoner, author, playwright, song writer and singer, I only hope I survive long enough to be half as good an Irish man
Alcoholism is a disease that is exacerbated by trauma.
But the Indians slaughtered each other along religious lines when Britain left. And very little progress has been made for the millions of poor. But they prospered in UK.
Are you American?
Brendan Behan was a very gifted man who's life was cur short by drink...but I often wonder would he have written such marvelous material if he wasn't a heavy drinker, it's known that alcohol can release the creativity in some people before eventually destroying it.
A school teacher of his called him a genius although he did drink from a young age.
Brendan Behan the Worker Republican said ( 3 things you must be wary of a bulls horn a horses hoff and an upper class English mans tongue...... 🔑☘️💚🇮🇪🙏🏻
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
James Joyce ....never trust the teeth of a dog the horns of a bull and the word of an Englishman.
What a legend! One of Ireland's true heroes
Thanks a million for uploading! Great to see this Gem from the Sixties.
We never claim to be better than anyone else. But we would fight to death and beyond for our claim our right to be ourselves
Thanks for uploading.
BRENDAN. FIOR LAOCH
good man brendan
every nation has the right to self determination, Saor Alba!!
Saor Alba agus saor Eireann
The African is Babatunde (Michael) Olatunji, a Nigerian drummer.
Yeah? Who cares?
@@michaelcollins237 I do. You racist prick
@@pablonush4261 plz explain to me how is that racist?
@@gibby8540 There's always one clown who call's Racist
It's no wonder there's devision in this world
Just shows the arrogance of them back then & when Brendan spoke of the soldier killed with an Irish name the Brit laughs as he said "he must have been Irish haha" Brendan replies "No, he was English" to wipe the smile off his face.
Brilliant bro
Wow, the CBC really has some gold in their vault.
Fascinating stuff being Irish myself, where did you get such gold?
@Snedger read more about Behan, English TV regarded him as much more than a drunk (which he admitted to being) They offered him huge money for those days to appar on chat shows which were the talk of the day. He was a very accomplishd playright, author, songwriter and humourist. He was everry bit as talented as Dylan Thomas who held him in great regard.Being an alcoholic certainly did not make him the eejit you would suggest. I and every other Irishman I know never regard him as embarassingt,
thanks for uploading behan is my hero
mhaith an fear brenndan
"They eat horrible food!" LOL
Meaning the English.
Behan has more intelligence that the others put together
More Witt
Eh ?
I couldn't understand a word they were talking about.
Being constantly interrupted is a problem even if you’re sober !
@@davecollins9075 ...Sober up Dave...😅
Independence presupposes dependence.
I love Brendan, I think the other guys at the table started to watch their mouths so they wouldn't upset Brendan.
Some like to win arguments by guile like that imperialist scoundrel cruel mocking supremacist social Darwinism classust genocidal apologist ect then there's the irish man with no tolerance for all the snyde insults b s and lies propaganda. and goes for the truth. As simple as that get them Brendan. Erin go deo Erin go deas as Erin go brách
I wonder if these people knew just how blessed they were to sit in the presence of a genius? Doubt it.
Behan was amazing. Dont take this for granted people.
ALL 32 COUNTIES OF IT. TAL
Great old footage Dan!!!
Brilliant mind
The "American" is the great Canadian short story writer, Morley Callaghan.
I've been to India. There are thrones in forts that have holes in them. Why? They used to have gems and precious stones in them. You might find those gems in the crown jewels in London.
You can still hear young Brits today saying "We left them a great railway system" and yer man here saying "We left a great civil service". The arrogance continues until today.
Up the Ra! I wish the poor would stop backing up the rich. It will never happen, though. Some poor people think they're rich. The rich just giggle and continue.
Maith thu, Brendan! Blaggards 'R' Us. We never wanted to be, but were forced to be.
This program was heavily Dubbed!! The other three werf hooked and
heavily upped the Dub!!
Who thinks allowing the English to govern themselves was a good idea ? ;-)
hahahaha
England, Angeland, Holstien, Germany.
that's olatunji! the master drummer from nigeria!
I was born and raised in England and the general attitude was that that the English were the superior and every one else were foreigners In the early sixties we had no Pakistanis to speak of so we had to use Catholics . Little did I know at the time that my mothers family were Black Irish ,my grandmother,and Ashkanazi. I assume they met on the back of the bus . .The kids in me mams family were sent to prossie school to avoid a murder.
I grew up believing I was white even though this was in NE England ,I was gently introduced to our family as to the Irish side but the Jewish history was not revealed to me till my thirties and I was old enough to stand the shock
Luckilly for me my fathers side is Danes Law Yorkshire so there is no Sasanach in my DNA
Fuck the British army
What's shocking about being Jewish?
😂😂😂 Lordy! Now that's confusing!
Your last sentence, I'm sure Brendan uttered those words many a time, as have many not just in Ireland but the wider world. 👍
Maranatha
Love Behan!
What year was this?
1961 I believe . It was filmed in Toronto, Ontario Canada for a CBC show called Fighting Words.
My dad saw him host a jazz event at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto a couple days before (or after I'm not sure as my dad is no longer with us) this was filmed.
One takeaway from this is that everyone, regardless of their origin grabs their heads when they are interrupted.
@yam500 Can you suggest a better way to go? ;)
Rome NEVER LEFT England
Any idea when this was recorded?
Beaverbrook had a great deal of say in what info people on the big island of Gt Britain could have............people in Gt Britain still say 'Southern Ireland'! =:oO
2 years later, but worthy to say, its not all over here can be tarred with same brush. hope ur well bro.
All Brendan was doing was defending his native land which was poor at the time and wasn´t helped by the fact that England, a much richer power, completely ignored Ireland when Ireland most need their help during the famine years of the mid-19th century. BTW i am English!
They did not ignore them they caused it
It was not a famine there was food
It was removed by food removal regiments .
Rents a taxes were so high the hadn’t the money to eat .
British policy was can’t beat them we will starve them out and out to America .
Replaced them with sheep they cost more
Too rite Finn if anyone believes we just ate spuds are totally numbnuts this country produced and still does most vegetables and livestock but the imperialist British took everything else when the potato blight hit and they took everything else out to feed there navy and soldiers near and far this caused a near totall genocide of our whole island of the IRISH ...yet still we prospered in America Australia and any country we imagrated too without force but from hard work and a solid backbone...I have many British friends and love them dearly and they are horrified by what their country done to us and called it the potato famine its a ridiculous moot point anymore but one day we may stand over them and I GUARANTEE we'd put the hand out and clothe feed and nurture them back to health esp if America got obliterated....
Fun fact the somliians and a South American tribal king of the chaktaw nation heard of our plight and sent ship loads of gold from thousands of miles away while the British a 100-150 milles away looked on and done nothing....it does make you SICK....that's why we set up trocaire and other charities to help those who helped us in famine days.
Another fun fact I'd love to punch the living shite outta that English wagon with his silver spoon rammed up his bottom🤬
Thanks Jonathan, it’s good to know some of the history is known.
@@davokelly7876 The Choctaw Nation you're referring to is actually from North America, from my home state of Oklahoma here in the US. I'm a member of the Cherokee Nation who are ethnically identical to the Choctaws.
@@Garrett1240 my bad no offence meant, and thankyou to your people for helping us in our time of need!
What I know of my history it's the countries that suffer the most these days (like Ethiopia, Sudan, Mali, West indies and native Americans) that helped us during that famine. Our country have set up charities and given as much as possible back over the many years to these countries since. Godbless
what was chris eubank doing there
always liked brendan just a likeable man, wrote some very cutting funny poems, check out [ lord gough goes up in he park] agreed eire an insult its IRELAND 32 COUNTIES
'Wimbledon types like Eichmann' haha
+22grena behan had a way with words lmao any time i play this i pmsl at behan saying that to the sarcastic brit
Love the guy, but he was not on his sharpest on this one...He can be much more quicker and cutting!!
Good stuff all the same.
I like your southern accent
Banjodano
@yam500 Good man, BUt Behan would have, he used to sargue for fun. There's a big b&w framed picture of him in a tiny bar in my home town. Of him seated in that bar, pint of Guiness in hand. Underneath is a hand written note saying "I've just arrived in Canada, there was a big sign saying 'drink Canada Dry' I'm doing my best"
Two of my uncles who were taxi drivers used to drive Brendan home from the pub in Dublin. My grandmother chose my first name, she also went to hear Michael Collins give a speech in London.
That’s why I’ve got the initials BMW :-)
Brendan's points I just about agree w/, but I wish he were not drunk. Oh, what he could have coherently expressed if sober.
Brendan tipsy was more articulate than most. Brendan tipsy was cead mile times more humane than that stupid racist english twit.
Yes, a pity.
Gid bkess ireland
Who's the Brit??
@maddogmcglinchey perhaps your memory is not long enough given that the histories of Britain and Ireland have been intertwined for over 2 millenia of mutual trade, war, and friendship. I say this as an Irish person with a bit of historical perspective rather than the propaganda you slurp up with relish.
Um ... what are you talking about?
to young to die, but too drunken to live !! RIP
Too too too
chris eubank is older than i thought!
donkiddick08 that comment really made me laugh,
The seed of a good idea is there in what Behan is saying but he is so inarticulate that it is hard to follow him. The black guy seems the most intelligent of all of them.
You should probably look at how you construct your sentences before referring to another as inarticulate.
Tell them Brendan!!
milk and shelter pleaze
I LIKE TURTLES
Oh my...on and on it goes....talk talk talk...I learned nothing...not even from my Hero Brendan Behan...
Let me get this right, the proof of a collapsed civilization is grass overgrowing on roads? I am now nervously reassessing my views of Basildon.
This lot would do better to stick to Match of The Day.
Define 'English' - Anglo/Saxon; Norman-French; Hanoverian?
ireland is nearly free from the british yolk.
We've never been free, the so called free state are blue shirts under British rule. Just because they took the Republican flag and took the IRA slogan for the modern day Irish army, doesn't mean anything.
+Darren Whelan Egg-zakley!
Yes, but then there's perfidious albumen.
@@UglyChileanDoorman 😄 you win the prize!
Millions of Indians died at the hands of their own countrymen when India was given independence. Ethnic hatred and religious intolerance ruled India which was to break apart in three seperate countries. So Britain did not leave India in a better place when they withdrew.
You weren't listening, British imperialists divided the country,they condition the people so they are easy to rule,the problems were created before they left intentionally by greedy western right wing capitalists. They are doing it to us now. Peace.
I agree with you
So true England has how to say it mildly...lakes of blood in their hands for instance handling Boer civilians during 2nd Boer war..terrible crimes India like starving people to death by rationing rice and so on.
Jim ORourke
thanks to the british for this problems
Of course like everywhere else they have interfered with for their own profit
who are the other two panellists - i.e. the irate guy on the left of Brendan and the smugly bemused gentleman on the far right next to the African fellow?
Well Ireland d was fked in the 80s when I had to immigrate to usa 🇺🇸
@FreePress1000 You're not far wrong there FreePress. The English bloke comes across as a condesending aul colonialist who mourns the passing of the Brit Empire. Are there people like him still around? (I'm afraid to answer my own question!!)
Yes.
I thought he did great.
"....back licking."
I thought that English fella had a point originally about a self governing country, but he says that Britain didn't rule with an iron rod in India when in April 1919 a troop of British soldiers under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer opened fire on a crowd of non violent protesters. Piss off. Im not against the regular English people, but this fella is a clown.
Is he drunk? He's not very eloquent.
He's not a yank.
How preposterous for a colonizing country to even suggest "giving Independence" to another Sovereign country minding it's own business!
Just remember the genocide of 200 MILLION Native Americans minding their own business too.
The railroads served the British Empire and stayed behind because they couldn't take them along with them! 😂Civilization as a gift of sorts doesn't come into it. Plundet is the key word. A sewage system would have made far more sense. But you needed engineer.Sir Charles Bazalgette in London to do that when millions died of Cholera in a reeking London.
Now they're dying off like flies in India besides endemic hunger.
The Romans actually improved conditions with roads and thermal baths and didn't interfere as long as taxes were paid to them and soldiers joined their army. That's how they lasted so long.
I like sausages
Pompous British.Ben an.talks a lot.of.sense
I like toad in the hole.
Chris Eubank has aged well!!!!
That English guy was obnoxious.
And Brendan Behan was obvioulsy not on form, otherwise he would have torn the English guy to peices, instead of just rambling on in the way that he did.
I guess this panel of talking 'heads' really solved a multitude of nothingness
But why should a country which has a kleptomaniac class be allowed to have any say ?
'fighting words' from BB?????...........sorry to say that he's inarticulate here ..........can't hold his focus or keep to a point and just makes inane comments of a biased nature; non-sequiturs throughout his comments. In this discussion I would put him on a par with the arrogant pro British commentator; not necessarily of the same view as the pro-British commentator but of an equally vacuous nature. On the other hand it is refreshing to hear the other two panel members making issue-based arguments in support of the question of an imperial power offering anything to the occupied peoples. Listen to the realistic and experienced comments of the person who has truly lived what it is to be a member of an oppressed people and the person who argues the question of how and when one can decide if a nation is ready for independence (arrogance) each smoking! cf Nelson Mandela. I'm afraid in this instance I put Brendan and the guy on the far right in the same boat but on opposing sides. The others have my vote here.....................and I'm a Dub with a Behan background!
+owen wall Behan has not upset me and you make an assumption in stating that. I think that Behan had a lot to offer but he does not do himself justice in his contribution to this discussion. It is easy to be 'straight to the point' when you have 'a few on board' which I think, for Behan, is the case here.
Yes, but the difference is that Brendan was right.
That English individual is so arrogant.
@Snedger Rubbish!
1 yank, 1 mick, 1 african to complain about the evil of imperialism and 1 englishman to speak sense
One Rodney plastic German wanker talking shite ..like all rodneys
When is it going to happen ?
Nothing wrong with toad in the hole, Brendan, and at least it's dependable. Never heard of the great toad in the hole famine resulting in millions of deaths and mass exodus to the USA, have you ? You chose spuds, so don't knock us poor English with our sad, poor diets and lives !
'You chose spuds'. What an ignorant sack of shite you are.