Book Review: Brendan Behan's short prose provides insight to what was... and could have been

"That he had such fun writing these pieces for a mass newspaper publication (when that quaint idea still held water) must question the received-wisdom idea of repression and crozier swinging, especially as Archbishop John Charles McQuaid was then in peak ayatollah mode."

Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964).

• A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan’s Collected Short Prose 
• Edited by John Brannigan 
• Lilliput, €25.00