Behan, Brendan Francis (1923–64), writer, was born 9 February 1923 in Holles St. Hospital, Dublin, eldest of five children of Frank Behan, a house painter then imprisoned as a republican, and Kathleen Behan (née Kearney) (qv), sister of…
Kearney, Colbert
Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan
Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan (1919–82), writer, was born Eugene Rutherford Watters in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, on 3 April 1919, eldest of two sons and two daughters of Thomas Watters, shoemaker, who had been wounded in 1916 while fighting with the Connaught Rangers at the Somme, and Maud Watters…