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Donleavy introduces new films
 Author,
playwright and artist JP Donleavy is to introduce two films on Irish novelist
and playwright Brendan Behan at the IFI on Wednesday July 18.
Meet The Quare Fella, from 1960, is a rare opportunity to see the now
infamous encounter between Eamonn Andrews and Brendan Behan.
Andrews elicits frank responses from his subject regarding the topics
of writing, fame, religion, his time in borstal and his connections with
the IRA. Brendan Behan’s Dublin (1966) is a documentary directed
by Norman Cohen and features interviews with Behan’s parents and
wife Beatrice.
Written by Carolyn Swift and featuring Ray McNally as the ‘voice
of Behan’, the film is evocatively photographed by Robert Monks
with musical ballads sung by The Dubliners. Behan, who was one of the
most successful Irish dramatists of the 20th century, died in 1964.
Donleavy, best known for his novel The Ginger Man, befriended Brendan
Behan in the late 1940s while at Trinity College.
Donleavy introduces the films with a talk on Behan as he knew him. Tickets
are available from the IFI box office or online at www.irishfilm.ie
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