id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1609 Brendan Behan - Wikipedia .html text/html 5115 479 72 Brendan's father Stephen Behan, a house painter who had been active in the Irish War of Independence, read classic literature to the children at bedtime from sources including Zola, Galsworthy, and Maupassant; his mother, Kathleen, took them on literary tours of the city. Behan's uncle Peadar Kearney wrote the Irish national anthem "The Soldier's Song".[7] His brother, Dominic Behan, was also a renowned songwriter best known for the song "The Patriot Game";[8] another sibling, Brian Behan, was a prominent radical political activist and public speaker, actor, author, and playwright.[9][10][11] Following Brendan's death, his widow had a child with Cathal Goulding called Paudge Behan; the two men were described as "good friends".[12] He wrote about the experience in the memoir Borstal Boy. In 1942, during the wartime state of emergency declared by Irish Taoiseach Eamonn De Valera, Behan was arrested by the Garda Síochána and put on trial for conspiracy to murder and the attempted murder of two Garda Detectives, which the IRA had planned for during a Dublin commemoration ceremony for Theobald Wolfe Tone. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1609.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1609.txt