He is the worst specimen I have met in 30 years’ service
A letter of complaint of note
Before The Quare Fellow hit the stage, before Borstal Boy made him a household name, Brendan Behan was a house painter. Briefly. In 1950, the young Dublin-born writer was hired to paint the inside of St John’s Point Lighthouse in County Down—a task that proved entirely beyond him. A self-p…
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