• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Bristol-fashion Guinness and the roast barley question At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien, ISBN 1-56478-181-X. "Guinness brings Dublin Porter back to life". Protz...
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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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    via www.penguin.co.uk. "The Week In Radio: For real originality, try Flann O'Brien | The Independent | The Independent". Independent.co.uk. 2 September...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Young Man for Naxos Records, released in 2004. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 2009. Thorndyke: Forensic Investigator: for BBC Radio 4 Extra 2011....
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  • Irishman's Diary about the Austrian director who filmed an unfilmable Flann O'Brien novel". Irish Times (opinion). Archived from the original on 21 November...
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  • postmodern fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Alasdair Gray, and Flann O'Brien. The author created a real life "Bean Day" website, in reference to...
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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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  • (Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician) (1929) Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies (1930) Flann O'Brien – At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) Thomas Wolfe – The Hills Beyond (1941) William...
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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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  • the name taken from the book of the same name by the Irish novelist, Flann O'Brien. Quigley died suddenly on 18 August 2020. An obituary was published...
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    by dissident Muslim authors. Author Brian O'Nolan used the pen names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen for his novels and journalistic writing from...
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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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  • 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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