Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist...
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At Swim-Two-Birds (category Novels by Flann O'Brien)
writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples...
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The Third Policeman (category Novels by Flann O'Brien)
a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written in 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find...
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Mainistrech (died 1056), Irish scholar Flann O'Brien, a pen name used by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966) FLANN, an acronym for Fast Library for Approximate...
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The Dalkey Archive (category Novels by Flann O'Brien)
The Dalkey Archive is a 1964 novel by the Irish writer Flann O'Brien. It is his fifth and final novel, published two years before his death. It was adapted...
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Maebh Long (section Flann O'Brien)
Irish literature - particularly the modernist novelist and playwright Flann O'Brien - Pacific literature and the medical humanities. She is currently Senior...
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The Dalkey Archive) is a fictional character originally created by Flann O'Brien for his novel The Third Policeman in which the nameless narrator intends...
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(Lagardère Publishing). p. 700. ISBN 978-1-84403-682-0. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien, ISBN 1-56478-181-X. "Guinness brings Dublin Porter back to life". Protz...
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An Béal Bocht (category Novels by Flann O'Brien)
An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) is a 1941 novel in Irish by Flann O'Brien, published under the pseudonym "Myles na gCopaleen". It is regarded as one of...
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The Hard Life (category Novels by Flann O'Brien)
Exegesis of Squalor is a comic novel by Flann O'Brien (pen name of Brian O'Nolan). Published in 1961, it was O'Brien's fourth novel and the third to be published...
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were Andrei Platonov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Miller, Bruno Schulz, Flann O'Brien, Leonid Andreev, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kōbō Abe, and Kenzaburō Ōe. He...
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better-known Irish writers Brian O'Nolan (who published under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien) and Donagh MacDonagh. As a student at University College Dublin he...
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novel and frequent praise as the natural successor to James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett. He is currently living in Gortachalla in County...
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also referred to as "plain", as mentioned in the famous refrain of Flann O'Brien's poem "The Workman's Friend": "A pint of plain is your only man." Already...
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Jorge Luis Borges At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) by Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman (1940) by Flann O'Brien Ficciones (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges The Cannibal...
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Irishman's Diary about the Austrian director who filmed an unfilmable Flann O'Brien novel". Irish Times (opinion). Retrieved 21 December 2020. Fugging,...
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Brendan Behan (who wrote poetry and a play in Irish) and Flann O'Brien. Two novels by O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman, are considered...
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frequently be found in the work of 20th century Ulster writers such as Flann O'Brien (1966) "You say you'd like a joke or two for a bit of crack." and Brian...
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only one nonsense device in a novel that otherwise makes sense. In Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, on the other hand, many of the devices of nonsense...
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literary salon was attended by, among others, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien. Salkeld was born Florence Ffrench Mullen in Chittagong on 10 August...
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the Irish author Flann O'Brien. It is owned by nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum. Founded in Elmwood Park, Illinois in 1984 by John O’Brien, Dalkey Archive...
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used as a rough boundary for postmodernism's start. Irish novelist Flann O'Brien completed The Third Policeman in 1939. It was rejected for publication...
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46 1972 Double or Nothing Raymond Federman 47 1939 At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien 48 1985 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 49 1949 The Cannibal John Hawkes...
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Archive may refer to: The Dalkey Archive, 1964 novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien Dalkey Archive Press, American publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary...
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Maggie Furey Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald The Bards of Bone...
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sea." The Forty Foot also featured in the novels At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939), At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill (2001) and Nessuna notizia...
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unfinished. He writes in his office which is located in Omagh and cites Flann O'Brien, James Joyce, Don DeLillo, Umberto Eco and Nikolai Gogol as influences...
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Enquiry, Brian O'Nolan, is better known to posterity as the writer Flann O'Brien. The former Cavan Town Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks was demolished...
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professional snooker player Fergus O'Brien (1930–2016), Irish politician Fitz James O'Brien, Irish born American novelist Flann O'Brien, pen name of Irish novelist...
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Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who also wrote books using the name Flann O'Brien. Cruiskeen Lawn is an anglicised spelling of the Irish words crúiscín...
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