Cyril Alfred "C A" Joyce (born 1900) was a British prison manager and headmaster of an Approved School.
He served in the army during World War I, and afterwards in the Army Education Corps.[1] He then took a degree at University College, Southampton.[1] He joined the prison service in 1922.[1]
One of his charges at Borstal was the young IRA volunteer and novelist Brendan Behan, known for his autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy.[2]
He appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 30 October 1971.[3]
A biography of Joyce, The hidden boy, by Richard Heron Ward, was published in 1962[4] His autobiography, Thoughts of a Lifetime, was published in 1971.[5]
Joyce's wife was an accomplished sculptor.[1]
Biography[]
- Richard, Heron Ward (1962). The hidden boy: The work of C.A.Joyce as headmaster of an approved school. Cassell. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Hidden_Boy_The_Work_of_C_A_Joyce_as.html?id=2OLrMgEACAAJ.
Autobiography[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 O'Sullivan, Michael. "Brendan Behan: A Life". Google Search. pp. 61–68. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I74_TIHrJTIC&pg=PA61. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ↑ "Writers in the DIB: Brendan Behan (1923-1964)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. http://www.ria.ie/research/dib/writers-in-the-dib--brendan-behan-%281923-1964%29.aspx. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ↑ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : C A Joyce". BBC Online. BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/8ec3a20a#p009ncds. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ↑ Ward, Richard Heron (1962). The hidden boy: The work of C.A.Joyce as headmaster of an approved school. Cassell. http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Hidden_Boy_The_Work_of_C_A_Joyce_as.html?id=2OLrMgEACAAJ.
- ↑ Joyce, C A (1971). Thoughts of a Lifetime. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0551000391.
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