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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

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Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
Journalist
Poet
Songwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
Irish
Soup
Rain
Would
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Forks

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