Meanings of borstal boy in English

The words are Brendan Behan's and can be found in his masterpiece Borstal Boy.

His Borstal Boy had just been published in French and I was about to review it.

Borstal Boy is an amazingly well-written book - my regret is that I did not read it earlier.

For years Ian Brady was able to mix with borstal boys in jail, newly released official papers reveal.

His short film, The Breakfast, has won several European awards, and his first feature, Borstal Boy, was released last year.

Behan plays with these personas and stereotypes in his work, not just in the autobiographical Borstal Boy, but elsewhere too.

Tony was away filming Peter Sheridan's Borstal Boy, while Leo left for Disney World Florida for 10 days with his godparents.

He was just 16, and the experience later produced his prose masterpiece, Borstal Boy (1958).

For it was here that a youthful Brendan Behan spent the two years which were the subject of his best-selling Borstal Boy.

During that time he appeared in The Righteous Are Bold, Tarry Flynn, Borstal Boy, The Hostage, The Shadow Of A Gunman, and numerous other productions.