Poet, writer, playwright. Born Dublin. Irish republican and, aged 16 - 23, volunteer in the IRA. He once described himself as a "a drinker with a writing problem". Collapsed in a Dublin bar and died in hospital.
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Brendan Behan
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Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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R.F. Delderfield
Author. Born Ronald Frederick Delderfield at 37 Waller Road, New Cross. His family moved to Addiscombe near Croydon, which provided the backdrop to his first major novels 'The Dreaming Suburb' and ...
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Charles Lamb
Born at 2 Crown Office Row, Inner Temple. Studied at Christ's Hospital where he became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Elia" is the pseudonym Lamb used for a series of essays he wrote for th...
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Hayes Literary Society
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 Â re. Orwell.
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Charlotte Riddell
Born as Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan in Ireland. Â Moved to London in 1855. Â Married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a hot water engineer in 1857. They lived in St John's Lodge 1868 - 1873. Â Published her fi...
1 memorial
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