A young IRA volunteer's wartime mission collapses into imprisonment, forcing a traumatic ideological reckoning and eventual personal truth.
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.
Peter Sheridan
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