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Irish fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Brendan Behan Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1071
Scope and Contents

The typescript is a complete short story with the title "A Coat for Confirmation". This appears to be an early draft of Behan's short story "The Confirmation Suit", first published in The Catholic Standard, 27 March, 1953, and later included in Behan's Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook (1962). Ths short story has also been published in school anthologies.

Dates: circa 1953