No stranger to literary contention, his detractors have seized in particular on works such as “Cromwell”, about the English Roundhead and Puritan whose army sacked the town of Drogheda and slaughtered its Royalist garrison and townspeople in 1649.
The eighth track, "Drinking In the Day", begins with a reading of the poem "Clearing a Space", by the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly.
Brendan Behan | Brendan Fraser | Brendan Perry | Brendan Byrne | Brendan O'Carroll | Brendan Benson | Brendan Coyle | Brendan Bowyer | Brendan Joyce | Tadhg Kennelly | David Brendan Hopes | Brendan Steele | Brendan Shine | Brendan Shanahan | Brendan O'Leary | Brendan Nelson | Brendan Keyes | Brendan I. Koerner | Brendan Grace | Brendan Gleeson | Brendan Dolan | Brendan Beiser | Brendan | Sheila Kennelly | Brendan Taylor | Brendan Taman | Brendan Sexton III | Brendan O'Brien (music producer) | Brendan O'Brien | Brendan McKay |