Flann O’Brien

“It is a tremendously Hibernian dilemma—a broken family, lost love, all the melancholy rest of it—and a Hibernian easement for it is suggested: fuck it, we’ll go for an old drink.” There is perhaps no better conspectus or cure for the…

Host Darach and Motherfoclóir regular Siún share many obsessions, but the one they discuss on today's show is the writer Flann O'Brien... also known as Myles na gCopeleen... also known as Brian O'Nolan. As a displaced Northerner, O'Nolan…

From its broadest strokes to its tiniest details, Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman is built out of weirdness. Weirdness is not only its dominant style but its very element, its operating logic, its final destination, and its means of…

"Kublai Kahn does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions..." He'd be better off reading the Lit Review... News Welcome aboard The Irish Writer's Centre Until…

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. When weren't getting together of a Sunday…