Film & TV
Borstal Boy
Based on Brendan Behan's acclaimed autobiography and directed by Peter Sheridan (In The Name Of The Father), Borstal Boy is a hard-hitting, rites-of-passage story where the harsh realities of prison life are revealed.
Brendan (Shawn Hatosy) is a teenage Republician going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during World War 2. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in England.
Locked in close quarters Brendan is forced to live face to face with this he perceives as ‘the enemy’
