The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama. London: Methuen, 1956. First Edition. Pp, 87. Frontispiece portrait. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Neat ownership name to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy in lightly rubbed jacket.

Behan’s first play set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.

It premièred at the Pike Theatre Club, Herbert Lane, Dublin, on 19 November 1954 to critical success and by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, London on May 24th 1956.