Borstal Boy
Behan's autobiographical account of his years in an English borstal after his arrest as a teenage IRA volunteer.
Why it was banned: Banned in Ireland in 1958.
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At a glance
- Theme
- Fiction, Politics & power
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A government
- Banned in
- Ireland
- Why it was banned
- Banned in Ireland in 1958.
- Author
- Brendan Behan
- Topics
- Social life and customs, Gay men, Gay, Revolutionaries, Authors, Irish, Biography & Autobiography
- First published
- 1958
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
- Find a copy
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Library record on Open Library
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