Brendan Behan: The Hostage [1959] paperback HEALT and dozens of tourists' diaries

and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters

and the fierce love of a mother for her son

This is a book for those who have felt a piercing joy at the beauty of the world

as well as a photographer

Regarded by many as the saviour of the nation 'in its darkest hour'

Brendan Behan: The Hostage [1959] paperback HEALT and dozens of tourists' diariesAn essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo Irish relationships