The film focused on three young offenders, Carlin (Ray Winstone), Angel (Davidson Knight) and Davis (Julian Firth), who arrive at an unnamed Borstal and whose lives are made intolerable by the staff ...

Adapting Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boy” — the legendary Irish playwright’s memoir of his teen stint as an Irish Republican Army prisoner in a British juvenile facility — as a film seems like the most ...

Directed by Mai Zetterling and billed as 'Borstal for Girls!', Scrubbers is the female answer to the controversial male life in a borstal film - Scum. Annetta and Carol escape from an open borstal.

As an adult, Irishman Brendan Behan was known for two things, the vivid plays he wrote (“The Quare Fellow,” “The Hostage”) and the commotions he caused when he was inebriated, which was often. A ...

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 ...

Brendan Behan, the Irish playwright and novelist who drank himself to death at 41, was once a borstal boy himself — unwilling resident of a British reformatory — and “Borstal Boy” is supposedly an ...