The ultimate pub quiz question? “What have Michael Collins and Grigoris Lambrakis got in common?” Although “They were both assassinated” is correct, it is also the wrong answer. The link, as TG4?s excellent documentary An Buachaill Gealgháireach has shown, is: Brendan Behan. Behan, as a young man, wrote his ballad The Laughing Boy in memory of Collins: “Ah, what will mend my broken heart, I’ve lost my Laughing Boy”. By a series of serendipitous manoeuvres, the image of the Laughing Boy (in Greek, To Yelasto Paidi) has become a mantra of the Greek Left. The route from Béal na Bláth...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
