On his death bed he reportedly told a nun looking after him: ‘Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops’. At his funeral he was given a full IRA guard of honour, which escorted his coffin. 2/2

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Brendan Behan died in the Meath Hospital, Dublin on 20th March 1964. He was a writer, dramatist and Irish Republican.

Behan joined the IRA, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and imprisonment in Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study, and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. 1/2

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Brendan Behan died in the Meath Hospital, Dublin on 20th March 1964 after collapsing at the Harbour Lights bar (now Harkin's Harbour Bar) in Echlin Street, Dublin. At his death bed he reportedly told a nun looking after him: ‘Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops’. At his funeral he was given a full IRA guard of honour, which escorted his coffin.

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