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Paudge Rodger Behan〔 (in Italian).〕 ( ; born January 1965) is an Irish actor and writer. The son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice ffrench-Salkeld, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan, Paudge Behan worked briefly as a journalist for a Dublin newspaper before turning to acting. After a series of minor film and television roles in the 1990s, he was handpicked by English novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford to appear as the male lead in a 1999 dramatisation of her book ''A Secret Affair'' (1996). Behan has also appeared in the feature films ''A Man of No Importance'' (1994), ''Conspiracy of Silence'' (2003) and ''Veronica Guerin'' (2003), and has taken leading roles in two short films, ''A Lonely Sky'' (2006) and ''Wake Up'' (2007). He has also auditioned unsuccessfully for Neighbours and popular UK black comedy, Doctors. ==Family and early life== Born in January〔 (in Italian).〕 1965,〔Table 4 ("ffrench-Salkeld families") of .〕 Paudge Behan is the son of Cathal Goulding (1923–1998), Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Official IRA, and Beatrice Behan (née ffrench-Salkeld) (1925–1993).〔〔. See also .〕 As a teenager, Goulding was involved with the IRA youth wing Fianna Éireann. After Brendan Behan's early death at the age of 41 on 20 March 1964, Goulding had Paudge Behan with Brendan's widow Beatrice.〔For this reason, it is inaccurate to describe Paudge Behan as Brendan Behan's "adoptive son", as IMDb does: see 〕〔"Goulding's career included many years as IRA chief of staff, many more seeking to break into politics, and an exotic love-life which included having a son by Behan's widow": . In her memoirs, Beatrice Behan omitted to mention that Paudge was her biological son. She wrote, "Life in my house hasn't changed much, except that Blanaid, now a frail, brown-haired girl with a gift for drawing, has a brother, Paudge, a fair-haired boy I adopted, who makes a good companion for her": ''My Life with Brendan'', p. 250. A photograph of Blanaid and Paudge as children with their pet rabbit Sneachta in their garden in Dublin appears as illustration 47 on p. 224 of the book. In December 2003, Paudge Behan expressed unhappiness that Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, had officiated at the unveiling of a statue to Brendan Behan at the Royal Canal in Dublin. When asked to say a few words after the Taoiseach's address, Behan addressed Ahern directly, saying: "There is nobody further removed from Behan's spirit than yourself." He later explained that his family had not been consulted about who would attend the event in an official capacity and he had not been pleased at the Taoiseach's attendance. "What has Bertie Ahern in common with Brendan Behan, other than they are both Irish? When you see what is happening with the fat cats in this country, with Bertie Ahern and his Government, I can't think of anyone further from the spirit of Brendan Behan. Shannon being used as an American air base for waging war on another country, was that in the spirit of Brendan Behan?": .〕 Paudge and his half-sister Blanaid〔Blanaid Behan, the daughter of Brendan and Beatrice Behan, was born on 24 November 1963: ''My Life with Brendan'', p. 235. She was named after Beatrice Behan's grandmother Blanaid Salkeld, a poet, dramatist and actress: ''Brendan Behan: A Life'', p. 296.〕 grew up at 5 Anglesea Road, a red-brick, semi-detached late Victorian house in Ballsbridge, Dublin, which Brendan Behan bought for his wife Beatrice in 1959 for IR£1,400. The house came into Paudge Behan's ownership, and he sold it reluctantly for €1.65 million in February 2006.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paudge Behan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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