Joyce, and in contact with an inspiring priest, one Fr. 1939 (in which 5 people were killed) tried on 7 Feb., 1940 professed his motives in court: It is my proud privilege and honour to stand in an English court to testify to the unyielding determination of the Irish people to regain every inch of our national territory his sentence coincided with the date of execution of Barnes and McCormack for the Coventry bombing Ĭommitted for three years to the Borstal detention centre at Hollesley Bay, arriving shortly after his seventeenth birthday encouraged by the governor Mr C. 1940 for their supposed part in the Coventry bombings of 25 Aug. 1939 professed his proud privilege and honour to stand in an English court to testify to the unyielding determination of the Irish people to regain every inch of our national territory in court held on remand in Walton Prison (Liverpool), where remained for two months and was subjected to brutality on the eve of the execution of Barnes & McCormack in Birmingham on 7 Feb.

Furlong, his mothers mother-in-law by her first marriage, who possessed a ferocious revolutionary outlook joined the Fianna youth organisation of the IRA, 1937, but discharged for disorderly conduct under the influence of drink contributed patriotic prose and verse to Fianna, The Voice of Ireland, Wolfe Tone Weekly and The United Irishman Īdmitted to Second Battalion of the IRA, 1939, and trained in bomb-making in Killiney travelled to England on mission to bomb Liverpool docks after the IRA declared war on Britain, on his own initiative, and arrested there in possession of a bomb-making kit within ten hours of his arrival, Nov.

influenced by strong political feeling in his family, incl. by Sisters of Charity NS, and CBS, Brunswick St. (Paddy) Bourke, and hence cousin to Seamus de Burca, who wrote a life (1985) lived at 13 Russell St., adjacent to Croke Park, in the home of matriarchal Granny English who introduced him to whiskey (good for the worms) Behan subsequently said he couldnt ever remember not drinking ed. If youre ever half the Republican I was youll be lucky) his mother was the more politically intransigent of the two īrendan was also a nephew of Peadar Kearney, author of The Soldierls Song, and P. I fought against the murder gang before yeh were born. 77 four more children, all boys, with Stephen Behan, whose mother was one Christine English Stephen fought on the Republican side in the Civil War and was gaoled in Kilmainham, after which he turned his back on politics and espoused family instead (∝ont you dare call me a Stater. married to Jack Furlong, who died of influenza in 1918, with whom two children afterwards employed as a maid by Maud Gonne she also stitched uniforms for the Volunteers in 1916, and was arrested at aetat. Hospital, Dublin grew up in Crumlin, son Stephen Behan, a highly-literate house-painter, and Kathleen Behan (mother of the Behans), prev.

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