O'BRIEN, FLANN

pseud. for Brian Ó Nualláinō nōˈlən 1911–66, Irish novelist and political commentator. Born in County Tyrone and raised in Dublin, he entered the Irish civil service in 1937 and formally retired in 1953. From 1940 until his death, he wrote a political column called "Cruiskeen Lawn" for The Irish Times, under the pseudonym of Myles na Gopaleen; his biting, satiric commentaries made him the conscience of the Irish government. As Flann O'Brien, he published three wildly funny novels, At Swim–Two–Birds (1939, rep. 1960), The Dalkey Archive (1964), and The Third Policeman (1976), and well as Faustus Kelly (1943), a play.

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books on: OBrien Flann  - 144 results

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1.
Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia - Vol. 2
Book by Bernard A. Cook; Garland, 2001
Subjects: Europe--Civilization--1945- Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1945---Encyclopedias, European Cooperation--Encyclopedias, Political Leadership--Europe--Encyclopedias, Politicians--Europe--Encyclopedias, Statesmen--Europe--Encyclopedias
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Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels
Book by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English--Irish authors--History and criticism, Folklore in literature, Heroes in literature, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Knowledge--Folklore, Literature and folklore--Ireland--History--20th century, Mythology, Celtic, in literature
...59 Flann OBrien: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third...James Stephens, James Joyce, and Flann OBrien, as well as Mervyn Wall, Darrell...add another parodic layer to Flann OBrien At Swim-Two-Birds , Brendan...
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Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790
Book by Seamus Deane; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Civilization, Modern, In Literature, Colonies In Literature, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, Ireland--Intellectual Life, Literature And History--Ireland--History, National Characteristics, Irish, In Literature, Nationalism--Ireland--History
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Authors, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Fiction, Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries, Ireland--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries
... Allison T. Hild Flann OBrien 1911-1966 289 Andrew J. Shipe Kate OBrien 1897-1974 296 Patricia J. Ferreira...
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James Joyce and His Contemporaries
Book by Diana A. Ben-Merre, Maureen Murphy; Greenwood Press, 1989
Subjects: English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Criticism And Interpretation
...Modern Irish Writers 13. Flann OBrien: Post Joyce or Propter Joyce? 113...Modern Irish prose writers, as Joseph Brownes essay on Flann OBrien suggests, are often ambivalent about their relationship...
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journal articles on: OBrien Flann  - 40 results

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Patrick McGinley's Impressions of Flann O'Brien: 'The Devil's Diary' and 'At Swim-Two-Birds.'
Journal article by Thomas F. Shea; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 40, 1994
Subjects: Fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., McGinley, Patrick--Works, O'Brien, Flann--Works
...Patrick McGinleys impressions of Flann OBrien: The Devils Diary and At Swim-Two-Birds...audiences familiar with the fictions of Flann OBrien pause, hearing distinct echoes...readers back to the prior novelist Flann OBrien: Dont get me wrong. I wasnt trying...
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An Atomy of the Novel: Finn O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds.'
Journal article by David Cohen; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 39, 1993
Subjects: At Swim-Two-Birds (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., O'Brien, Flann--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Swim-Two-Birds. by David Cohen Flann OBrien began At Swim-Two-Birds in 1934...composition. NOTES (1) Letters in the Flann OBrien collection at the Morris Library...responds to Adams particularly in his "Flann OBrien: Post Joyce or Propter Joyce...
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Flann O'Brien
Journal article by Neil Murphy; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Good Fairy, at Swim- Two- Birds (Book)
Flann OBrien. by Neil Murphy "There is...Beginnings The difficulty with writing about Flann OBriens work emerges as soon as one pens the...Samuel Hall, Myles na Gopaleen, and Flann OBrien. Appropriately enough, for an author...
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'A Lacuna in the Palimpsest': A Reading of Flann O'Brien's at Swim Two Birds
Journal article by Eibhlin Evans; Critical Survey, Vol. 15, 2003
Subjects: Irish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...in the palimpsest: a reading of Flann OBriens At Swim Two Birds. by Eibhlin...established classic of Irish writing, Flann OBriens At Swim Two Birds, in a reading...Kiberd for his assistance. (2.) Flann OBrien, At Swim Two Birds, (London: Penguin...
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Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O'brien's at Swim-two-birds
Journal article by Gregory Dobbins; Novel, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Loyalty oaths, Novels, Storytelling
...Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann Obriens at Swim-two-birds by Gregory...the heterogeneity of Irish time. Flann OBriens novel At Swim-Two-Birds, a quintessential...Constitutions and Self-Evident Shams "Flann OBrien" was one of the pseudonyms of Brian...
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magazine articles on: OBrien Flann  - 25 results

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1.
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien
Magazine article by Richard Tillinghast; New Criterion, Vol. 17, September 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien (Book)--Reviews
...Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien by Richard Tillinghast...Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien. Fromm International, 272 pages...Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann OBrien, published in London almost a decade...
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The Book That Changed My Life: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Magazine article by Ed O'Loughlin; New Statesman, Vol. 138, August 24, 2009
Subjects: At Swim-Two-Birds (Novel), Books--Personal narratives
...Changed My Life: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann OBrien. by Ed OLoughlin I first...written under the pen name of Flann OBrien. Much of the praise that has been...been in on. "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann OBrien is published in the Penguin Classics...
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The Last Laugh
Magazine article by Joseph O'Neill; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 301, May 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Complete Novels (Book)--Book reviews
...ONeill THE COMPLETE NOVELS by Flann OBrien Everymans Library The author pseudonymously known as Flann OBrien (1911-1966) is the shadowy and...Joyce (gold) and Beckett (silver). Flann OBriens relative inferiority is as much...
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No Laughing Matter
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, February 1998
Subjects: Irish writers--Biography, O'Nolan, Brian
...alias Nolan, O Nuallain, Ua Nuallain, Brother Barnabas, Flann OBrien, Myles na Gopaleen, and so many other "pseudonymous personalities...was an undergraduate prankster and literary leader. As Flann, he was the author of the splendidly comic innovative...
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Double Shot of Celtic Soul
Magazine article by Helen M. Jerome; Book, March 2001
Subjects: MacGowan, Shane--Conduct of life, Musicians--Conduct of life, Singers--Conduct of life, The Pogues (Music group)--Conduct of life
...would have also been the best place to seek out the late Flann OBrien (aka Myles na gCopaleen)--columnist, novelist (The Third...like Edgar Allan Poe. James Stephens is a genius, like Flann OBrien.... Stephens took up the Irish oral fairystory tradition...
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newspaper articles on: OBrien Flann  - 30 results

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Reveling in the Japeries of Irish Wit Flann O'Brien
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 22, 2004
...Reveling in the Japeries of Irish Wit Flann OBrien. Byline: Jack Matthews, SPECIAL...identify the following - Brian ONolan, Flann OBrien, Myles na gCopaleen? And who among...all, it will almost surely be as Flann OBrien, an Irish writer who gained the...
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Brendan's Buddy F Lick; Actor to Film Classic Flann O'Brien Novel Here This Year
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 3, 2009
Subjects: Farrell, Colin, Gleeson, Brendan
Brendans Buddy F Lick; Actor to Film Classic Flann OBrien Novel Here This Year. Byline: Hannah-Louise Dunne...revealed to the Mail that work on his adaptation of Flann OBriens comic masterpiece, At Swim-TwoBirds, will begin this...
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LOST & Flann-Ed; 'PLUG' IN TV HIT BOOSTS BOOK SALES
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 5, 2006
...was published under the pen name Flann OBrien only after the author died in 1966...and got him a paraffin heater." Flann OBrien was the third of twelve children...about the nature of space and time. Flann OBrien was part of a group of hard-drinking...
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Say What?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 29, 2004
...entertaining treatment of "At War" by Flann OBrien, edited by John Wyse Jackson ("Reveling in the japeries of Irish wit Flann OBrien," Books, Feb. 22) reviewer Jack Matthews gags on Mr. OBriens other pseudonym, Myles na gCopaleen...
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We All Pay for the Sins of Addicts
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 14, 2008
...PINT of plain is your only man was the famous refrainin Flann OBriens poem, The Working Mans Friend . The poem went through...depression and ill health were actually caused by alcohol. OBrien, a chronic alcoholic himself, knew all too well the...
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encyclopedia articles on: OBrien Flann  - 4 results

 
 
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O'Brien, Flann
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OBRIEN, FLANN pseud. for Brian O Nuallain or ONolan o no l n 1911 66, Irish novelist...1941, tr. The Poor Mouth, 1973), a parody of Irish country life. As Flann OBrien, he published four comic novels in English, all of which display his brilliant...
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Myles Na Gopaleen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MYLES NA GOPALEEN see OBrien, Flann . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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O Nuallaian, Brian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
O NUALLAIAN, BRIAN see OBrien, Flann . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Gaelic Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poets are Somalirle Maclean, George Campbell Hay, and Derick Thomson. A popular satirist and newspaper columnist was Flann OBrien (Myles Na Gopaleen), whose novels, particularly At Swim Two Birds (tr. 1956), were popular in translation. In general...


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