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Flann O'Brien

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Born: October 04 1911

Died: 3131 03 19661966

Pseudonym of
Brian Ó Nualláin
, also known as Brian O'Nolan.

His English novels appeared under the name of Flann O’Brien, while his great Irish novel and his newspaper column were signed
Myles na gCopaleen
or
Myles na Gopaleen
– the second being a phonetic rendering of the first. One of twelve brothers and sisters, he was born in 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone, into an Irish-speaking family. His father had learned Irish while a young man during the Gaelic revival the son was later to mock. O’Brien’s childhood has been described as happy, though somewhat insular, as the language spoken at home was not that spoken by their neighbours. The Irish language had long been in decline, and Strabane was not in an Irish-speaking part of the country. The family moved frequently during O’Brien’s childhood, finally settling in Dublin in 1925. Four years later O’Brien took up study in University College Dublin.

Flann O'Brien is considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. Flann O'Brien novels have attracted a wide following for their bizarre humour and Modernist metafiction.

The café and shop of Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich , at the heart of the Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter, is named An Ceathrú Póilí , as a play-on-words of the title of O'Brien's book The Third Policeman.

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At Swim-Two-Birds

The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life

The Dalkey Archive

The Hard Life

The Best of Myles

The Third Policeman

The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss

The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien

The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother

Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn

О водоплавающих. Трудная жизнь

The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien

Das grosse Flann-O'Brien-Buch

Scene e scenate: Racconti brevi 1934-1967

Great Irish Detective Stories.

Stories and Plays

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Golden Hours: Die goldenen Stunden des Myles na gCopaleen