The author and playwright Brian Behan, a younger brother of Brendan, has died aged 75.
A colourful figure, he had lived in England for most of his adult life and made headlines as recently as December 1999, when his daily nude swim off the Brighton coast sparked an air-sea rescue operation.
An onlooker had mistaken his behaviour for a suicide attempt and called emergency services.
Early in life, his plans to write a memoir were dismissed by Brendan: "You could get that fellow's memoirs on the back of a postage stamp and still have room for the Koran".
But despite the disregard of his brothers - another, Dominic, didn't speak to him for 34 years - he went on to have a relatively successful literary career, albeit late in life.
His biggest success was in 1984 with Mother of All the Behans, a dramatic adaptation (by Peter Sheridan) of a novel about his mother, Kathleen.
His first play, Boots for the Footless, attracted pickets outside a London theatre from Irish groups protesting at its stereotypical portrayal of "drunken, violent Irishmen, and sexually contradictory, irrational, stupid conniving Irish women".
Mr Behan pleaded guilty to stereotyping, but was unrepentant. "I regard being stage-Irish as something of a trade like any other. It's something we Irish are particularly good at. After all, we have no other natural resource that I know of."