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Jul 1, 2024 · Flann O’Brien — A Writer With Many Names. Adopting the further pseudonym of Myles na gCopaleen, (Tr. Myles of the Ponies), a moniker found in Dion Boucicault’s play The Colleen Bawn (1860), O’Nolan wrote a daily column in The Irish Times for almost for some 30 years.
5 days ago · Book 9: At Swim Two Birds by Flann O’Brien (1938) This is a series of reflections reading through Time Magazine’s top 100 novels as selected by Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo published since 1923 (when Time magazine was founded).
6 days ago · Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, were pen names for Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966), whose work graced both stage and page throughout his lifetime and beyond. The Third Policeman was first published in 1967, the year after his death, and has since become a beloved staple of literary connoisseurs the world over.
20 hours ago · This month we were reading The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien. A book which very boldly claims on the cover that “if we don’t cherish the work of Flann O’Brien we are stupid fools who don’t deserve to have great men.”. Well that’s me put in my place. I am a stupid fool. This isn’t news – I shall embrace the epithet.
Jun 13, 2024 · Brian O’Nolan, otherwise known as Flann O Brien, was at his absolute best when his parody was closest to the bone. In a satirical scene in his best novel (in my opinon), An Béal Bocht (the Poor Mouth), he brings “na Daoine Uasaile” –the educated elite- down from Dublin, to poverty stricken west Kerry, to lecture the locals ...
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Jun 16, 2024 · My Dad and Flann O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien, Flann, Myles na gCopaleen Myles of the Little Horses, this is not about a bicycle. My dad once told me you were a regular on the last bus out of the city, heading home to Booterstown langered, stotious, three sheets to the wind whether this was an observation or a judgement or an ...
