Author: Brendan Behan

Cites

• Virginia Woolf (1)
  • IN: Borstal Boy (1958) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...One crew of young watermen or postboys... roared and shouted the lewdest tavern songs, as if in bravado, and were dashed against a tree and sunk with blasphemies on their lips. An old nobleman - for such his furred gown and golden chain of office proclaimed him - went down not far from where Orlando stood, calling vengeance upon the Irish rebels, who, he cried with his last breath, had plotted this devilry...
    FROM: Orlando, (1928), Novel, UK