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10 best books like Borstal Boy (Brendan Behan): Girl with Green Eyes, The Essays, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, Amongst Women, The Butcher Boy, Reading in the Dark, Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars, The Commitments, The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life

Girl with Green Eyes
AuthorEdna O'Brien
ISBN0140021086
In one interview Edna said

I was reading van Gogh’s letters. My God! I’m surprised he cut off only one ear

Not relevant at all, but it is funny.

On to the book. So, in 1962, one year before Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique kicked off the 2nd wave of feminism, and one year before...
The Essays
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0140432167
Bacon, an Elizabethan legal and government counselor and a scholar, wrote these enduring essays at the tail end of the 16th century. So of what practical use could they possibly be now at the start of the 21st century? From his essay “On Unity” there is this observation, “But it is greater blasphemy...
At Swim-Two-Birds
AuthorFlann O'Brien
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel...
The Third Policeman
AuthorFlann O'Brien
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of...
Amongst Women
AuthorJohn McGahern
ISBN0571195261
Did you read any great novels recently about a thoroughly decent man? A guy who wasn’t violent and treated everyone with humanity and tried to look on the bright side? No, me neither. That is why Ulysses is so great. Leopold Bloom is that guy, always trying the cheer up his fellow struggler, always looking...
The Butcher Boy
AuthorPatrick McCabe
ISBN0385312377
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!" This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical,...
Reading in the Dark
AuthorSeamus Deane
ISBN0375700234
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award

Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing...
Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars
AuthorSeán O'Casey
ISBN0312802900
Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker...
The Commitments
AuthorRoddy Doyle
ISBN0749391685
I was going to attempt to write this review in the working class Dublin slang that Roddy Doyle’s colourful characters use, but, ya know, Jaysis, I’d come o’ looking like a fuckin’ eejit.

I’m one of the few people on the planet who’s never seen the Alan Parker movie, and when I was in...
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life
AuthorFlann O'Brien
ISBN1564780910
The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and...
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