Brendan Behan, the Irish playwright and novelist who drank himself to death at 41, was once a borstal boy himself — unwilling resident of a British reformatory — and “Borstal Boy” is supposedly an ...
Ireland's 'Moral Hospital' The Irish Borstal System1906-1956 By Conor Reidy Irish Academic Press256 pp. £45. CONOR REIDY could not have chosen a better time to publish this book. In the media tsunami ...