The twisting of another rope :
a play for radio /
by Brendan Behan,
[194-?]
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English Mainly in English, with some Irish also. |
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| Notes: | Typescript for a radio play, with manuscript amendments throughout. Behan's play later became 'The Quare Fellow'. The title is a play on the title of Douglas Hyde's 1901 play 'The Twisting of a Rope'. Physical description: 38 sheets. more |
| Provenance: | Originally in the possession of Labhrás Mac Bradaigh, a writer and schoolteacher, who was from the same part of Dublin as Behan. Behan visited Mac Bradaigh in Valleymount, Co. Wicklow where he was a teacher, and seems to have given him the typescript. It was found amongst his papers after his death in 1958. |
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MS 49,737 |
Manuscripts Reading Room |
Manuscripts |
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