Brendan Behan was born in 1923 in Dublin and taught in the Chrisitian Brotherhood till 14 years old. Later  on, in 1939  Behan joined in Fianna Eireann, IRA the junior at his teen years.  For IRA bombing, he was arrested in Liverpool and charged to three-year sentence. Behan spent most of his early life in the prison. Behan's experience in the prison became the background of his plays. His first successful work was The Quare Fellow (1954), written originally in Irish concerning the controversial story of the condemned man in the English prison. Because of its performance on stage, this play established Behan's reputation as a playwright. He died in Dublin in March 1964.