IFOBS Comprehensive Flann Bibliography
Compiled by members of the International Flann O'Brien Society.
We intend this to be a live and continually updated bibliography of all works on Flann, so please take a moment to peruse it and let us know if you see any books, articles, adaptations, or translations by yourself or others missing, and we will update it as we receive them.
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Thanks to the following for contributing to this Bibliography:
Jennika
Baines, Ruben Borg, David Conlon, Ronan Crowley, Paul Fagan, Jack
Fennell, Dieter
Fuchs, Scott Hamilton, Gülden Hatipoğlu, Keith Hopper, Werner Huber,
Sonja Jankov, Maebh Long, Karim Mamdani, Ciaran McCloskey, Jürgen
Meyer, Erika Mihálycsa, Neil Murphy, Adrian Naughton, Adrian Oţoiu,
Ergo Phizmiz, Ondřej Pilný, Monika Piotrowska, Melissa Powers, Marion
Quirici, Thierry
Robin, Moshe Ron, Patricio Swift, Carol Taaffe.
All languages welcome.
Contents
1. Primary works by Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, Brian [O’]Nolan/Ó Nualláin
2. Special Collections
3. Translations
4. Adaptations
5. Books & Journals about Flann O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan
6. Book Chapters & Journal Articles about Flann O’Brien / Myles na gC. / Brian O’Nolan
7. Journalism & Print Media: Reviews, Profiles, & Articles (Primary / Secondary)
8. Theses about Flann O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan
1. Primary works by Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen,
Brian [O’]Nolan/Ó Nualláin
Brian [O’]Nolan/Ó Nualláin
Section Contents
a. Novels
b. Short Stories
c. Dramatic Works
d. Television and Radio Scripts
e. Serial & Occasional Journalism
f. Reviews and Criticism
g. Collected Works
— Collected Novels
— Collected Shorter, Occasional, and Dramatic Works
— Collected Columns
— Collected Letters
— Individual Pieces Collected in Readers and Anthologies
(a) Novels
O’Brien, Flann. At Swim-Two-Birds. London: Longmans Green, 1939; London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1960;
London: Penguin, 1980; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1998.
—. The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1961; New York: Penguin, 1977; ; London: Grafton, 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1994.
—. The Dalkey Archive. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964; New York: Macmillan, 1965; London: Picador, 1976; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1993.
—. The Third Policeman. 1967; New York: NAL, 1976; London: Grafton, 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1999.
—. Slattery's Sago Saga, or From Under the Ground to the Top of the Trees [Unfinished Novel].Stories and Plays. Ed.
Claud Cockburn. Intro. by Claud Clockburn. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986.
na gCopaleen, Myles. An Béal Bocht. Dublin: Dolmen, 1941.
(b) Short Stories
Barnabas, Brother [Brian O’Nolan]. ‘Scenes in a Novel’. Comhthrom Féinne 8.2 (May 1934). [Reprinted in Clissmann,
Anne, and David Powell. Eds. The Journal of Irish Literature 3.1 (January 1974). Special Flann O’Brien issue.
California: Proscenium, 1974: 14-18.]
na Gopaleen, Myles. ‘Donabate’. Irish Writing, no. 20-21, November 1952, 41-42.
—. ‘Two in One’. The Bell 19.8 (July 1954): 30-34.
Nolan, Brian. ‘The Martyr’s Crown’. Envoy 1.3 (February 1950): 57-62. [Reprinted in: O’Brien, Flann. Stories and Plays.
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986.]
O'Brien, Flann. ‘John Duffy’s Brother’. Story 19.90 (July-August, 1941): 65-68. [Reprinted in: O’Brien, Flann. Stories
and Plays. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986. pp. 89-97; & in Manguel, Alberto
(Ed.). Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature. Ed. London: Picador, 1983. pp. 371-76].
O’Nolan, Brian. ‘After Hours’, Threshold, no. 21, Summer 1967, pp. 15-18.
Ó Nualláin, Brian. 'Díoghaltais ar Ghallaibh 'sa Bhliain 2032!' ["Revenge on the English in the Year 2032!", short
story in Gaelic]. The Irish Press. January 18, 1932. (Synopsis by Jack Fennell: Set in a future Gaelic-speaking
United Ireland. A bilingual Irishman 'teaches' an English tourist an Irish phrase and tells him it is a request
for directions, but it is in fact a string of vile obscenities that lands the Englishman in trouble when he
recites it).
—. 'Teacht Agus Imtheacht Sheáin Bhuidhe' ["The Arrival and Departure of John Bull", short story in Gaelic].
The Irish Press, June 13 1932. (Synopsis by Jack Fennell: Set in the distant future, when Irish is the
dominant language and English has died out; John Bull is a researcher for 'Connradh an Bhéarla,' who comes
to Ireland in search of fragments of English vocabulary).
—. 'Eachta an Fhir Ólta: CEOL!' ["The Tale of the Drunkard: MUSIC!", short story in Gaelic]. The Irish Press,
August 24 1932, (Synopsis by Jack Fennell: A man recounts how he has been driven insane by his
neighbours, who insist on playing music at all hours of the day and night)
—. 'Mion-Tuairimí ár Sinnsir' ["The Minor Opinions of our Ancestors" in Gaelic]. The Irish Press, September 29
1932. (Synopsis by Jack Fennell: A parody of a letters page, with communications from Fionn Mac
Cumhaill, Cormac Mac Art, etc.)
—. ‘Aistear Pheadair Dhuibh’. Inisfail, vol.1, no. 1, March 1933, 63-64. (Synopsis by Carol Taaffe: "the hero becomes
so frustrated with his life on the bog that he asks his priest who created 'an tir ocrach seo' (this hungry
land). Not God, the priest replies, but two Dublin writers. After Peadar dispatches them with
his double-barrelled shotgun, life on the bog becomes much more pleasant: 'tá siopaí ar an phortach anois, agus
tá bus-ticket agus cigarette agus daily mail le fagháil ann' ('now there are shops on the bog, where you can get
bus tickets, and cigarettes, and the daily mail'). (Taaffe 2008, 94-95).
Unpublished
O'Brien, Flann. "For Ireland Home and Beauty" (1940). An early version of Nolan, Brian. ‘The Martyr’s
Crown’ (1950. Housed at the Brian O’Nolan Manuscript Collection. Special collections Research Center,
Morris Library. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois.
(c)
Dramatic
Works
na Gopaleen, Myles. Faustus Kelly: A Play in Three Acts. Dublin: Cahill 1943.[Reprinted in: O’Brien, Flann. Stories
and Plays. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986].
—. Thirst. Collected in O’Brien, Flann. Stories and Plays. Ed. Claud Cockburn. Intro. by Claud Clockburn.
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986.
O'Brien, Flann. Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green: The Insect Play. Ed. Robert Tracy. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1994.
Ó Nualláin, Brian. Mairéad Gillan. Baile Átha Cliath: Ofig an tSoláthair, 1953. [Translation of stage play Margaret
Gillan by Brinsley MacNamara (first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1933). London: Allen & Unwin, 1934].
Unpublished
na Gopaleen, Myles. The Handsome Carvers: A Tragedy in Two Acts. Carbon copy of typescript housed at "The Flann
O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
—. An Scian. Original typescript of play in Irish, dated December 4, 1944. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien
Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
—. A Moving Tale. Carbon copy of typescript of theater sketch or radio play; title is hand-lettered by the author.
Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"Untitled Play in Irish" (Excerpt). Carbon copy of Act 3, Act 4 and part of Act 5 of a play in Irish, title unknown,
32 pages. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
The Dead Spit of Kelly. Original typescript of a play in 4 parts, adapted from the short story "Two in One", later used as
a television script for an RTÉ TV play. Title hand-lettered by the author Myles na gCopaleen. Housed at
"The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
(d) Television
and Radio Scripts
Unpublished
The Boy from Ballytearim (1962), TV play, RTÉ.
The Time Freddie Retired (1962), TV play, RTÉ.
Flight (1962), TV play, RTÉ.
The Man with Four Legs (1962), TV play, RTÉ.
The Dead Spit of Kelly (1962), TV play dramatised from “Two in One”, RTÉ.
The Ideas of O’Dea (1963), series, RTÉ.
O’Dea’s Yer Man (1963-4), series RTÉ.
The Oul’ Lady of Kilsalaher (1965), series, RTÉ.
Myles Apart. Photocopy of typescript for Radio, Episodes 1 (32 pages), 3 (27 pages), 4 (33 pages), 5 (28 pages), 7,
11 (27 pages), housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
The Detectional Fastidiosities of Sergeant Fottrell. Carbon copy of typescript of proposed series for TV and page one of
the first episode, "The Case of the Unspeakable Spokes", housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection".
Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
A Moving Tale. Carbon copy of typescript of theater sketch or radio play; title is hand-lettered by the author.
Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"TH’ELECTRIC". Original typescript of RTE TV series. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston
College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
(e) Serial &
Occasional
Journalism
Serial Journalism
Brother Barnabas, et al. Comhthrom Féinne/ The National Student. vol. 1, no. 2 – vol. 13, no. 3, 15 May 1931 –
Christmas 1935. [Reprinted in Myles Before Myles, 1983 -- see "Collected Columns" below].
Doe, John James. ‘A Weekly Look Around’. Southern Star, Skibbereen. 15 Jan. 1955-3 Nov. 1956.
Knowall, George. Bones of Contention a.k.a. George Knowall’s Peepshow. The Nationalist and Leinster Times,
Carlow, 1960-1966. [Reprinted in Myles Away from Dublin, 1985 -- see "Collected Columns" below].
Count O’Blather, et al. Blather. vol. 1, no. 4 – vol. 1, no. 5, August 1934 – January 1935. [Reprinted in Myles Before
Myles, 1983 -- see "Collected Columns" below].
na Gopaleen, Myles. Cruiskeen Lawn. Irish Times. 4 October 1940 –1 April 1966.
Occasional Articles
na Gopaleen, Myles. ‘Drink and Time in Dublin’, Irish Writing, no. 1, 1946, 71-77. [Reprinted in Mercier, Vivian
and David H. Greene. 1000 Years of Irish Prose. New York: Devin-Adair, 1952].
—. ‘The Tired Scribe: a poem from the Irish’. Poetry Ireland 4 (January 1949): 12.
—. ‘Forward’ in Tom Merry (ed.), Where to Drink: Well-Known Irish Bars and Lounges . Tralee: The Kerryman, 1949.
—. ‘Baudelaire and Kavanagh’ . Envoy 3.12 (November 1950): pp. 78-81. [A "counter-diary" to Patrick Kavanagh's
Envoy Diary].
—.‘I Don’t Know,’ Kavanagh’s Weekly, vol. 1, no. 3, 26 April 1952, 3-4.
—.‘The Sensational New “Phoenix”’, Kavanagh’s Weekly, vol. 1, no. 4, 3 May 1952, 4.
—.‘How Are You Off For Tostals?’, Kavanagh’s Weekly, vol. 1, no. 5, 10 May 1952, 4.
—.‘Motor Economics’, Kavanagh’s Weekly, vol. 1, no. 7, 24 May 1952, 6.
—. ‘Front-Of-The-House Man’, in RIAI Year Book (1957). [Reprinted in John Graby (ed.) 150 Years of Architecture in
Ireland. Dublin: RIAI, 1989, p. 75].
—. 'Time Piece.' The Guinness Harp 3.2 (March-April 1960): ???.
—. ‘On Public Taste and Decorum’, Hibernia, no. 24, 9 September 1960, 3.
—. ‘Christmas Time at Santry’, The Harp, vol. 3, no. 6, November - December 1960, 8.
—. ‘Notes on 1961’, The Harp, Winter 1961, 18.
—.‘The Fausticity of Kelly’, RTV Guide. (23 January 1963), 12-13.
—. ‘Pots and Pains’, The Irish Housewife, no. 14, 1963-64, 70-71.
—. ‘De Me’. New Ireland. (March 1964): 41-42.
—. ‘A Pint of Plain’, The Harp, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 1965, 27.
—. ‘A Christmas Garland’, The Harp, Christmas 1966, 19.
—.‘Three Poems from the Irish’. Lace Curtain 4 (Summer 1971): pp. 15-18.
O’Brien, Flann. ‘Standish Hayes O’Grady’. The Irish Times, October 16 1940.
—. ‘Going to the Dogs: a discourse on greyhound racing in Dublin’. The Bell 1.1 (October 1940): pp. 19-24.
—. ‘The Trade in Dublin’. The Bell 1.2 (November 1940): pp. 6-15.
—. ‘The Dance Halls’. The Bell 1.5 (February 1941): pp. 44-52.
—. ‘When I Met William of Orange’, The Irish Digest. (April 1942), pp. 20-23.
—. ‘Words’, Development, no. 9 Spring Show 1959, 63.
—. ‘National Gallery: Sean O’Sullivan’, Development, no. 16 December 1959, 10.
—. ‘Enigma’. The Irish Times, June 16 1962.
—. ‘Behan, Master of Language’, The Sunday Telegraph. (22 March 1964).
—. ‘Gael Days’, The Manchester Guardian. (6 May 1964).
—. ‘St Augustine Strikes Back: De scribendi periculo’, Bookmark. (1964), 2.
—. ‘The Saint and I’, The Manchester Guardian. (19 January 1966).
—. ‘Can a Saint Hit Back?’ Manchester Guardian (19 January 1966).
O'Connor, Lir. ‘The Beauty from Limerick’, The Irish Digest. (August 1941), pp. 101-104.
—. ‘Let Me Choose Your Christmas Card’, The Irish Digest. (December 1942), pp. 27-29.
—. ‘I’m Telling You No Lie!’, The Irish Digest. (July 1943), pp. 15-18.
O'Nolan, Brian. "II. Brian O'Nolan." Centenary History of the Literary and Historical Society of University College,
Dublin, 1855-1955. Ed. James Meenan. Trallee: Kerryman, [1956], 240-46.
Ó Nualláin, Brian. ‘Seán Mac hÉil - Laoch gan Eagla’. The Irish Press, November 10, 1931.
—. ‘Mná Borba na Romha’, The Irish Press, January 2 1932.
—. ‘Scéal Beag gan Ghruaim’. The Evening Press, June 17 1932.
—. ‘Carneraí na hÉireann’. The Evening Press, June 22 1932.
—. ‘Gaedhealtacht na Lae Indiu: Breoiteacht gan Ainm’. The Evening Press, June 29 1932.
—. 'Siúbhlóid’. The Irish Press, July 4 1932.
—. ‘Ní Mhaireann an Sógh acht Seal’. The Evening Press, July 7 1932.
—. ‘Amuigh i mBáid’. The Evening Press, July 16, 1932.
—. ‘Reidhteach na Ceiste’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, July 21 1932.
—. ‘Rath agus Mío-Rath’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, July 29 1932.
—. ‘Cuaird Lae i gConamara’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, August 16 1932.
—. ‘Tús na hoibre’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, August 29 1932.
—. ‘Míon-Tuairimí ár Sinnsir’. The Irish Press, September 29 1932.
—. ‘Seoidín Fánach: Focal Fiuntach’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, October 3 1932.
—. ‘Mairg a bhíos i nGrádh’. The Evening Telegraph and Evening Press, October 13 1932.
—. ‘Uaisle an Bhealaigh Mhóir’. The Irish Press, November 21 1932.
—. ‘Ceist gan Reiteach’. The Irish Press. (Christmas 1932?). [Reprinted in Breandán Ó Conaire (ed.), Áth Cliath:
Coláiste na hOllscoile, 1970, pp. 44-46.]
—.‘Pisa bec oc Parnabus’. Ireland Today, vol. 3, no. 2, February 1938, 138, 165.
‘Quidnunc’. ‘An Irishman’s Diary’, The Irish Times. (23 July 1960).
Unpublished
"The Press Mess". Original typescript of an article, 4 pages, title hand-lettered by the author. Housed at "The
Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"The Poultry Business". Original typescript of an article about At Swim-Two-Birds. The title is hand-lettered by
the author. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
"Seanchas Diadha" Original typescript of article by Sean Ó Longáin (Myles na gCopaleen), title hand-lettered by
author. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
"Sagart A D’Imigh". Original typescript of article by Sean Ó Longáin (Myles na gCopaleen). Title hand-lettered by
the author. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
"Cursaí Éamoiníochta". Original typescript of article, title hand-lettered by the author, Myles na gCopaleen. Housed
at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"Cuimhne Ar An Athair Eoghan Ua Gramhna". Carbon copy of typescript of article by Myles na gCopaleen. Housed
at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"The Revival of Irish". Carbon copy of an article on the revival of Irish, handwritten, housed at "The Flann
O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"Who won the Battle of The Boyne? or A Dialogue In Hades". Carbon copy of an article; the title is hand-lettered
by the author. Housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives
and Manuscripts.
"Article on Pubs". Carbon copy of transcript of article on pubs and drinking, two pages and title missing. Housed
at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
"In Old Belfast" Three carbon copies of transcript of article by Myles na gCopaleen, housed at "The Flann
O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts. For more details
see here.
"A Writer’s Writhings," a five-page article concerning taxation on writers’ works. Original typescript housed at
"The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
(f) Reviews and
Criticism
Anon. ‘Two Irishmen. James Joyce and John McCormack’, The Irish Times. (22 March 1941).
na gCopaleen, Myles. ‘Leabhair Nua’, The Irish Times. (8 February 1941).
—. ‘The Presidential Office.’ The Irish Times (9 June 1945).
—. ‘Joyce Re-approached’, Irish Writing, no. 10, January 1950, 71-72.
—. ‘A Glass of Punch’, Irish Writing, no. 11, May 1950, 73.
—. ‘Book Reviews’, Envoy, vol. 3, no. 12, November 1950, 88-89.
—. ‘Book Reviews’, Envoy, vol. 4, no. 15, February 1951, 76-77.
—. ‘Something New’, The Irish Times. (20-1 April 1962).
Nolan, Brian. ‘A Bash in the Tunnel’. Envoy, vol. 5, no. 17, April 1951, 5-11. [James Joyce Critcism]
—. ‘Small Men and Black Dogs’, The Manchester Guardian. (14 October 1960).
O’Brien, Flann. ‘George Bernard Shaw on Language’, The Irish Times. (23 January 1965).
—. ‘At the Crossroads’, The Irish Times. (20 February 1965).
—. ‘The Cud of Memory’, The Manchester Guardian. (15 October 1965).
Ó Nualláin, Brian. 'Review of The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce, by L. A. G. Strong'. Irish Writing, No. 10,
January, 1950. pp. 71-72.
—. 'Review of A Long Drink of Cold Water, by Patrick Campbell'. Irish Writing, No. 11, May, 1950. pp. 73-74.
Unpublished
Ó Nualláin, Brian.‘Nádúir-Fhilíocht na Gaedhilge’ [‘Irish Nature Poetry’]. MA thesis, University College
Dublin, 1934.
Critique/review of a book, Scela Thuicid. Holograph housed at "The Flann O'Brien Collection". Boston College, John
J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts.
(g) Collected
Works
Collected Novels
O'Brien, Flann. "The Complete Novels" [O'Brien, Flann. At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life: An Exegesis of
Squalor (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964), The Third Policeman (1967); Power, Patrick. The Poor Mouth (1973).
Translation of of na gCopaleen, Myles. An Béal Bocht (1941)]. Intro. Keith Donohue. Everyman's Library 309.
New York: Knof, 2007.
Collected Shorter, Occasional, and Dramatic Works
O’Brien, Flann. Stories and Plays. Ed. Claud Cockburn. Intro. by Claud Clockburn. London: Hart-Davis,
MacGibbon, 1973; London: Grafton, 1986. (Including: Slattery's Sago Saga, or From Under the Ground to the
Top of the Trees [Unfinished Novel]; “The Martyr's Crown” [Short Story]; “John Duffy's Brother” [Short
Story]; “Thirst” [Play]; “Faustus Kelly” [Play]; “A Bash in the Tunnel” [Joyce Criticism].
Collected Columns
na Gopaleen, Myles. The Best of Myles. Ed. Kevin O’ Nolan. 1968; London: Pan, 1975; London: Grafton, 1989;
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1999.
—. The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and The Brother. 1976. Ed. Benedict Kiely. London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1976; London: Grafton, 1988; London: Paladin, 1990.
—. Cuttings from the Cruiskeen Lawn. London: Hart-Davis, 1976; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2000.
—. Myles Away From Dublin: being a selection from the column written for The Nationalist and Leinster times, Carlow, under the
name of George Knowall Ed. and Intro. Martin Green. London, New York: Granada, 1985; London:
Grafton, 1987.
—. The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’. Ed. Kevin O’Nolan. London: Hart-Davis,
1977; London: Grafton, 1987.
O’Brien, Flann. Flann O’Brien at War : Myles na gCopaleen, 1940-45. Ed. John Wyse Jackson. London: Duckworth,
1999; Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.
—. Myles Before Myles: A Selection of the Earlier Writings of Brian O’Nolan. Ed. John Wyse Jackson. London: Grafton, 1983.
Collected Letters
O’Nolan, Brian. ‘A Sheaf of Letters’. Ed. Robert Hogan and Gordon Henderson. [Reprinted in Clissmann,
Anne, and David Powell. Eds. The Journal of Irish Literature 3.1 (January 1974). Special Flann O’Brien issue.
California: Proscenium, 1974: 65-103.]
Individual Pieces Collected in Readers and Anthologies
na gCopaleen, Myles. "Cruiskeen Lawn: 2nd Deceber 1942". Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Ed. David
Pierce. Cork: Cork University Press, 2000. 503-504.
O'Brien, Flann. "Extract from At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)" ["The birth of Furriskey" / "Biographical reminiscence,
part the third"] Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Ed. David Pierce. Cork: Cork University
Press, 2000. 479-483.
2.
Special
Collections
Brian O’Nolan Manuscript Collection. Special collections Research Center, Morris Library. Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois. For more details see here.
Flann O’Brien Manuscripts and criticism, 1934-1989. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. University of Texas
at Austin.
Flann O’Brien Collection. Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library. Boston College.
Niall Montgomery Collection. National Library of Ireland.
Timothy O'Keefe Collection. National Library of Ireland.
3.
Translations
Bulgarian
Filipova, Filipina. Plavashtite chavki. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Sofia: Fama, 2008.
Czech
Čáp, Jan. Řeči pro pláč: mizerný příběh jednoho krušného osudu. Trans. of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C.
Power's English translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1997
—.Gaelština a prasata. ["The Gaelic Tongue and Pigs" – Chapter 3 from The Poor Mouth]. Souvislosti 4/5 (1993): 116-122.
—. Řeči pro pláč. [The Poor Mouth - chapters 6 and 7]. Souvislosti 3/4 (1997): 291-300.
Kafka, Tomáš. Poté, co jsem se touto záležitostí zabýval,...; Z děl, jichž napsal aspoň cent... ["After Some Consideration...;
From His Works, of Which There Are At Least A Quintal..."]. Trans. of Extracts from Cruiskeen Lawn.
Literární noviny 9.20 (20 May 1998): 12.
Pilný, Ondřej. Třetí strážnik. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Prague: Argo, 1999.
—. "Nemrtvý" ["The Undead"]. Trans. of a Cruiskeen Lawn Column (The Best of Myles, pp. 391-92). Signed as: Myles
na gCopaleen alias Flann O’Brien. Babylon 13.2 (28 October 2003), Literární a výtvarná příloha: 4.
—. "Buchhandlung čili Úprava knih" ["Buchhandlung aka Book Treatment"]. Trans. of Selection from Cruiskeen
Lawn (The Best of Myles, pp. 17-32) and commentary. Literární noviny 14.48 (24 November 2003): 14.
English
Power, Patrick C. The Poor Mouth. Trans. of An Béal Bocht, 1941. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; New York: Viking, 1974; London: Grafton, 1986; Normal,IL: Dalkey Archive, 1996.
French
Hersant, Patrick. Swim-Two-Birds. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2002.
Morisset, Henri. La Kermesse irlandaise. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Paris: Gallimard, 1964.
Reumaux, Patrick. L'Archiviste de Dublin. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964. Paris: Granit, 1995.
Reumaux, Patrick and Bernard Géniès. Dublinoiseries. Trans. of The Best of Myles, 1968. Paris: Jean-Cyrille
Godefroy, 1983.
Verrier, André and Alain Le Berre. Le Pleure-misère ou la triste histoire d'une vie de chien. Illustrations by Ralph
Stearlman. Paris: Le Tout sur le tout, 1984; Toulouse: Petite Bibliothèque Ombres, 1994.
German
Böll, Annemarie and Heinrich Böll. Das harte Leben. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961.
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1979.
Fiedler, Lore. Zwei Vögel beim Schwimmen. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1966; Berlin: Volk
und Welt, Berlin 1981.
Rowohlt, Harry. Durst : und andere dringende Dinge. Trans. of Stories and Plays, 1973. Zürich : Haffmans, 1991.
—. Das Barmen: Eine arge Geschichte vom harten Leben. Trans of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C.
Power's English translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Volk und Welt; Auflage: 1, 1983; München : Heyne, 2006.
—. Irischer Lebenslauf. Trans of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C. Power's English
translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Suhrkamp; Auflage: 11. 2001.
—. Aus Dalkeys Archiven. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964. Berlin: Kein &Aber, 2003.
—. Das harte Leben. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961. Berlin: Kein & Aber, 2007.
—. Der dritte Polizist. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. München : Heyne, 2007.
—. Trost und Rat: die besten Kolumnen aus der "Irish Times". Trans. of selected columns from The Best of Myles, 1968.
Zürich: Haffmans, 1985; Berlin: Kein & Aber, 2011.
Rowohlt, Harry. and Helmut Mennicken. Auf Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel, oder, Sweeny auf den Bäumen. Trans. of
At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Zürich: Haffmans, 1989; Zürich: Kein & Aber, 2002.
Hebrew
Narkiss, Doron.Hashoter Hashlishi. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2003.
[In Hebrew: .פלאן או'בריאן, השוטר השלישי. תרגם דורון נרקיס. תל אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד, 2003.]
Porat, Amatzia. Khokhmat Hamisken: Sippur Ra al Hakhayim Hakashim. Trans of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated
from Patrick C. Power's English translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941) Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1997. [In Hebrew:
.1997, פלאן אובריאן,חכמת המסכן: סיפור רע על החיים הקשים. תרגם אמציה פורת. תל אביב: עם עובד.]
Hungarian
Csizmadia, Gábor and Erika Mihálycsa. Úszikkétmadáron. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds , 1939. Afterword by
Erika Mihálycsa. Cluj/Kolozsvár: Koinónia, 2009. pp. 330.
Veres, Júlia. A Fába Szorult Féreg. Trans. of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C. Power's English
translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Budapest: Európa, 1982.
Török, Gábor. A Harmadik Rendőr. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Budapest: Geopen, 2003.
Italian
Benati, Daniele. La miseria in bocca. Trans. of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C. Power's English
translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Foreword by Gianni Celati. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1987.
—. Il boccale traboccante. Le cronache dublinesi di Myles na Gopaleen ("An Cruiskeen Lawn [Overflowing Jug]. The
Dublin Chronicles of Myles na Gopaleen"). Trans. of selected columns from Cruiskeen Lawn , 1940-1966.
Varese: Giano, 2005.
—. L'ardua vita. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961. Varese: Giano, 2002.
—. Vita dura: I narratori delle tavole. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961. Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2009.
Bottini, Adriana. L'archivio di Dalkey. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964.
Milano: Adelphi, 1995.
Fonzi, Bruno. Il terzo poliziotto. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Volume 246 of Biblioteca Adelphi. Milano:
Adelphi, 1992.
Mannoni Lanzoni, Gabriella, and Alex R. Falzon. Faust Kelly. Arsura (due commedie). Trans. of Faustus Kelly: A Play in
Three Acts, 1943 (Gabriella Mannoni Lanzoni) and of Thirst (Alex R. Falzon). Roma, Bonacci, 1984.
Wilcock, Juan Rodolfo. Una pinta d'inchiostro irlandese. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Torino: Einaudi, 1968; Volume
268 of Biblioteca Adelphi. Milano: Adelphi , 1993; Milano: Bompiani, 1999.
Norwegian
Fosse, Grethe. Den Tredje Politmannen. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Solum Forlag, 1997.
Herrman, Bjorn Alex. Pa Svom to Fogler. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds , 1939. Bokvennen Forlag, 1998.
Polish
Anders, Jarosław. At swim-two-birds. Trans. of extracts from At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Literatura na świecie
4/60 (1976): 58-65.
Cendrowska, Grażyna. Felietony. Trans. of selected columns from Cruiskeen Lawn , 1940-1966. Literatura na
świecie 5/154 (1984): 174-187.
Fordoński, Krzysztof. Sweeny wśród drzew. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Poznań: Dom Wydawniczy
Rebis, 1996.
Ginalski, Robert. Ustęp w tunelu. Trans. of ‘A Bash in the Tunnel’, 1951. Literatura na świecie 5/154 (1984): 188-200.
Grabowska, Małgorzata and Grabowski, Andrzej. Trzeci policjant. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967.
Poznań: Zysk i S-ka, 1996, 2nd edition 2001.
Grabowski, Andrzej. Trzeci policjant. Trans. of extracts from The Third Policeman, 1967. Literatura na świecie
5/154 (1984): 3-159.
Jarniewicz Jerzy. Z archiwum miasteczka Dalkey. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964 (chapters 1-4). Literatura na
świecie 10-11/315-316 (1997): 19-59.
Puławski, Krzysztof. Ciężkie życie: egzegeza nędzy. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961. Izabelin:
Świat Literacki, 2007.
Pustuła, Hanna. Z archiwów Dalkey. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964. Izabelin: Świat Literacki, 2008.
Rusin, Wiesawa. Czeka gęba na gołębia. Trans of The Poor Mouth, (chapters 1-2, translated from Julia Veres's
Hungarian translation A Fába Szorult Féreg, 1982). FA-art 1/II (1993): 68-72.
Romanian
Oţoiu, Adrian. La Doi Lebădoi. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2005.
Russian
Vasserman, Mikhail. Tretiyj Politseyskij. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Afterword Mikhail Vasserman.
Moskva: Tekst, 1999.
Serbian
Ječmenica, Aleksandar.Treći Policajac. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Novi Sad: Bratsvo-Jedinstvo, 1990.
Krivokapić, Đorđe.Arhiv iz Dalkija. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964. Beograd: Rad, 1996.
Šaponja, Predrag. Na reci kod Dve ptice ("On the river at Two birds"). Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Zrenjanin:
Agora, 2009.
Spasić, Ivana. Translation of “John Duffy’s Brother.” Pismo, 2.5/6 (1986). 206-209.
Slovenian
Skubic E., Andrej. Pri Dveh Ptičih Na Vodi. Trans, of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Maribor: Litera, 2009.
Spanish
Álvarez, José Manuel. En Nadar-dos-pájaros. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Madrid: Nórdica Libros, 2010.
Arnau, Héctor. El Tercer Policia. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Madrid: Nordica Libros, 2006.
Flórez, José Manuel Álvarez . En Nadar-dos-pájaros. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1989.
García, Chuliá, María José. Crónica de Dalkey. Trans. of The Dalkey Archive, 1964. Madrid: Nórdica libros, 2007.
Lech, Iury. La vida dura. Trans of The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor, 1961. Introduction by Jamie O'Neill.
Madrid: Nórdica Libros, 2009
Taravillo, Antonio Rivero. La boca pobre. Trans. of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick C. Power's
English translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Madrid: Nórdica Libros, 2008
Swedish
Andersson, Erik. Klagomunnen: en vrång historia om det hårda livet. Trans. of The Poor Mouth, 1973 (Translated from Patrick
C. Power's English translation of An Béal Bocht, 1941). Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Ellerström, 1994.
Hedlund, Magnus. Sanning är ett udda tal. Trans. of At Swim-Two-Birds, 1939. Ellerström, 1995.
Turkish
Hatipoğlu, Gülden. Üçüncü Polis. Trans. of The Third Policeman, 1967. Istanbul: Everest, 2011.
4.
Adaptations
Film Adaptations
Bresnihan, Rory. Dir. The Martyr's Crown. Adapted for the screen by Rory Bresnihan from the 1950 short story by
Brian Nolan. Ireland: Park Films, 2007. 10 mins.
Murfi, Mikel. Dir. John Duffy’s Brother. Adapted for the screen by Eoghan Nolan, from the 1941 short story
by Flann O’Brien. Ireland: Park Films, 2006. 14 mins.
Palm, Kurt. Dir. In Schwimmen-Zwei-Vögel. German language Adaptation of At Swim-Two-Birds. Adapted for the screen
by Kurt Palm. Austria: Fischer Film, 1997. 93 mins.
Stage Adaptations
Clarke, Jocelyn. The Third Policeman. Blue Raincoat Theatre Company. Premiere: Sligo: The Factory Performance
Space, October 16 2007. Dir: Niall Henry. For more details see here.
—. At Swim-Two-Birds. Blue Raincoat Theatre Company. Premiere: Sligo: The Factory Performance Space, 2009.
Dir: Niall Henry.
Johnston, Alex. At Swim-Two-Birds. Amharclann na Mainistreach. Premiere: Dublin: Abbey Theatre, July 29 1998.
Dir: Jimmy Fay. For more details see here.
Lee, Paul. The Poor Mouth. Dry Bread Theatre Company. Dublin: An Beal Bocht, June 1989. Dir: Ronan Smith.
For more details see here.
Leonard, Hugh. When the Saints Go Cycling In. Adaptation of The Dalkey Archive (1964). Premiere: Dublin: The
Gate Theatre, September 27, 1965. Dir: Denis Carey. For more details see here.
Morrissey, Eamon. The Brother. (Gemini Productions, one-man show). Premiere: Dublin, Abbey Theatre, February 1
1974.
—.The Third Policeman. Premiere: Dublin: The Gate Theatre, September 30 1974. Dir: Eamon Morrissey.
For more details see here.
Phizmiz, Ergo. The Third Policeman - An Electronic Neuropera Vaudeville Machine. 60 minutes. Premiere: London:
Tete-a-Tete: The Opera Festival, August 2011. Followed by tour of UK & The Netherlands.
Riordan, Arthur. Slattery's Sago Saga. Adapted from Flann O'Brien's unfinished novel, collected in Stories and Plays,
1973. The Performance Corporation. Premiere: Dublin: Rathfarnham Castle, July 16. 2010. Dir: Jo Mangan.
For more details see here.
—.Improbable Frequency. Rough Magic Theatre Company. Includes Myles na gCopaleen as a character. Premiere:
Dublin: O'Reilly Theatre, September 27 2004. Dir: Lynne Parker. For more details see here.
Smyth, Gerry and David Llewellyn. The Brother. Liverpool John Moores University. Premiere: Liverpool: The Fly, June
10, 2011. Dir: Andrew Sherlock.
Welsh, Audrey. At Swim-Two-Birds. Amharclann na Mainistreach. Premiere: Dublin: Abbey Theatre, February 12
1970. Dir: Alan Simpson. For more details see here.
Documentaries
Sweeney, Maurice. Dir. Flann O’Brien: The Lives of Brian. Ireland: RTÉ / Mint Productions, 2006. 53 mins.
Radio Features / Documentaries
Higgins, Aidan. Discords of Good Humour: A Feature on the Life of Brian O’Nolan, alias Flann O’Brien, alias Myles na
gCopaleen (BBC Radio 3, 12 November 1980). [Reprinted in Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air, ed. Daniel Jernigan.
Champaign, Illinois and London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.]
5. Books &
Journals about Flann O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen /
Brian O’Nolan
Brian O’Nolan
Biography
Costello, Peter, and Peter van de Kamp. Flann O’Brien: An Illustrated Biography. London: Bloomsbury, 1987.
Ó Nualláin, Ciarán. Óige an dearthár .i. Myles na gCopaleen. Baile Átha Cliath : Foilseacháin Náisiúnta Teoranta, 1973.
Translated into English by Róisín Ní Nualláin as The Early Years of Brian O’Nolan / Flann O’Brien / Myles
na gCopaleen. Ed. Niall O’Nolan. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1998.
Ó Nualláin, Micheál. The Brother (Myles). Dublin, 2011.
Criticism: Single Author
Asbee, Sue. Flann O’Brien. Twayne’s English Authors series. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
Bohman-Kalaja, Kimberly. Reading Games: An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec. Illinois:
Dalkey Archive Press, 2007.
Booker, M. Keith. Flann O’Brien: Bakhtin and Menippean Satire. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse UP, 1995.
Brooker, Joseph. Flann O’Brien. Writers and their Work series. Tavistock: Northcote House, 2005.
Clissmann, Anne. Flann O’Brien: A Critical Introduction to his Writings. Dublin: Macmillan, 1975.
Donohue, Keith.The Irish Anatomist: A Study of Flann O’Brien. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2002.
Ferrari, Roberta. La scrittura come travestimento dell'Io. La narrativa di Flann O'Brien. Pisa: ETS, 1995.
Gallagher, Monique. Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen et les autres: masques et humeurs de Brian O'Nolan, fou-littéraire irlandais.
Villeneuve d'Ascq (Nord): Presses Univ. Septentrion, 1998.
Hopper, Keith. Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist. Cork: Cork UP, 1995.
—. Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist a Young Post-Modernist. Revised 2nd edition, with a foreword by J. Hillis Miller.
Cork: Cork UP, 2009.
Ó Conaire, Breandán.Myles na Gaeilge: Lámhleabhar ar Shaothar Ghaeilge Bhrian Ó Nualláin. Baile Átha Cliath: An
Clóchomhar Teo, 1986.
Robin, Thierry. Flann O'Brien: Un Voyageur au bout du langage. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes, 2008.
Shea, Thomas F. Flann O’Brien’s Exorbitant Novels. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1992; London: Associated University Presses, 1992.
Taaffe, Carol. Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate. Cork: Cork
University Press, 2008.
Criticism: Multiple Authors (Book Collections)
Baines, Jennika. Ed. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
Clune [Clissmann], Anne, and Tess Hurson. Eds. Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997.
Foster, Thomas C. Ed. A Casebook on Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004.
Accessed 12 April 2011. <http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100481040>.
Imhof, Rüdiger. Ed. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Dublin: Wolfhound, 1985.
Jones, Stephen. Ed. A Flann O’Brien Reader. New York: Viking Press, 1978.
O’Keeffe, Timothy. Ed. Myles: Portraits of Brian O’Nolan. London: Martin Brian O’Keeffe, 1973.
Criticism: Multiple Authors (Journal Collections)
Clissmann, Anne, and David Powell. Eds. ‘A Flann O’Brien-Myles na Gopaleen Portfolio’. The Journal of Irish
Literature 3.1 (January 1974). Special Flann O’Brien issue. California: Proscenium, 1974.
Murphy, Neil and Keith Hopper. Eds. "Flann O'Brien: Centenary Essays". The Review of Contemporary Fiction 31.3
(Fall 2011). Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
Ó Caoimh, Ian. 'Brian Ó Nualláin: Eagrán Comórtha Speisialta'. Comhar 71.12 (Nollaig 2011). Special Brian Ó
Nualláin issue.
6.
Book
Chapters & Journal Articles about Flann O’Brien /
Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan
Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan
Adams, Anthony. "Butter-Spades, Footnotes, and Omnium: The Third Policeman as ’Pataphysical Fiction". The Review
of Contemporary Fiction 31.3 (Fall 2011). Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive
Press, 2011. 106-109.
Anspaugh, Kelly. "Flann O’Brien: Postmodern Judas". Notes on Modern Irish Literature 4 (1992): 11-16.
Asbee, Sue. "At Swim-Two-Birds: Readers and Literary Reference". Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien.
Eds. Anne Clune [Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997.
Baines, Jennika. "A Rock and a Hard Place: Sweeny as Sisyphus and Job in Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds".
Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics. Eds. Keown, Edwina; Taaffe, Carol. Oxford & New York, NY: Peter
Lang, 2010. 145-58.
—. "Introduction".‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 11-16.
—. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Dubliner: Eroding the Künstlerroman in The Hard Life'. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 142-156.
—. “'Un-Understandable Mystery': Catholic Faith and Revelation in The Third Policeman". The Review of Contemporary
Fiction 31.3 (Fall 2011). Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
78-90.
Benstock, Bernard. "The Three Faces of Brian O’Nolan". Éire-Ireland 3.3 (Autumn 1968): 51-65.
Bobotis, Andrea. "Queering Knowledge in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman". Irish University Review 32.2 (Autumn/Winter 2002): 242-58.
Bohman-Kalaja, Kimberly. "The Truth is an Odd Number: At Swim-Two-Birds". ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in
the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 49-66.
Bolton, Jonathan. “Comedies of Failure: O’Brien’s The Hard Life and Moore’s The Emperor of Ice Cream”. New
Hibernia Review Vol. 12.3 (Autumn 2008): 118-133.
Booker, M. Keith. "The Bicycle and Descartes: Epistemology in the Fiction of Beckett and O’Brien". Éire-Ireland 26.1
(Spring 1991): 76-94.
—. ‘Science, Philosophy, and The Third Policeman: Flann O’Brien and the Epistemology of Futility’. South Atlantic
Review 56. 4 (November 1991): 37-56.
—. ‘The Dalkey Archive: Flann O'Brien's Critique of Mastery’. Irish University Review Vol. 23, No. 2 (Autumn - Winter,
1993): 269-285.
Breuer, Rolf. ‘Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett’. Irish University Review 37.2 (Autumn/Winter 2007): 340-51.
Brooker, Joseph. ‘Estopped By Grand Playsaunce: Flann O’Brien’s Post-Colonial Lore’, Journal of Law and Society,
31: 1 (March 2004), 15-37.
—. ‘Flann O’Brien’. Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
—. ‘Mind That Crowd : Flann O’Brien’s Authors’.Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material. Ed.
Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Polina Mackay. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007: 91-110.
—. ‘Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien’. The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature, Volume Two: The Twentieth Century. Ed.
Julia M. Wright. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: 176-191.
—. 'Myles' Tones'. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 17-31.
—. “'That Carrousel Inside and Outside My Head': Flann O’Brien and Pale Fire". The Review of Contemporary Fiction 31.3
(Fall 2011). Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. 120-133.
Browne, Joseph. ‘Flann O’Brien: Post Joyce or Propter Joyce?’. Éire-Ireland 19.4 (Winter 1984): 148-57. Revised in
Joyce and His Contemporaries. Ed. Diana A. Ben-Merre, and Maureen Murphy. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
Brown, Terence. "Two Post-Modern Novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien". The Cambridge Companion to the
Irish Novel. Cambridge companions to literature. Ed. John Wilson Foster. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006. 205-222.
—. ‘Post-Modernists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien’. The Literature of Ireland: Criticism and Culture. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2010. 104-121.
Broich, Ulrich. "Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds und der Angloirische Experimentelle Roman". Shakespeare. Satire.
Academia. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Weiss. Sonja Fielitz and Uwe Meyer (eds.). Anglistische Forschungen 424.
(Heidelberg: Winter, 2012). 133-41.
Burgess, Anthony. "The Magical Madness of Flann O'Brien". Saturday Review, Volume 3. 1976.
—. "Flann O’Brien: A Note". Études Irlandaises 7 (December 1982): 83-86.
—. "Probably a Masterpiece". Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Imhof, Rüdiger. Dublin:
Wolfhound, 1985. 70-72.
Chace, William M. "Joyce and Flann O’Brien’. Éire-Ireland 22.4 (Winter 1987): 140-52.
Clissmann, Anne. ‘Brian alias Myles alias Flann’. The Word (September 1977): 11-13.
Clune, Anne. "Flann O'Brien: Twenty Years On". The Linen Hall Review Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1986): 4-7.
Cohen, David. "An Atomy of the Novel: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds". Twentieth Century Literature 39.2
(Summer 1993): 208-29.
—. "James Joyce and the Decline of Flann O’Brien". Éire-Ireland 22.2 (Summer 1987): 153-60.
—. "Arranged by Wise Hands: Flann O'Brien's Metafictions". Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien. Eds.
Anne Clune [Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 57-60.
Comer, Todd A. "A Mortal Agency: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds’. Journal of Modern Literature 31.2 (Winter
2008): 104-114.
Conte, Joseph M. "Metaphor and Metonymy in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds". Review of Contemporary Fiction
5.1 (1985): 128-34.
Coulouma, Flore. ‘Transgressive and Subversive: Flann O'Brien's Tales of the In-Between’. Ed.
Ciaran Ross. Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature. Amsterdam, Netherlands:
Rodopi, 2010. 65-85.
—. ‘Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion’. Digressions in European Literature:
From Cervantes to Sebald. Ed. Grohmann, Alexis and Wells, Caragh. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
—. "Tall Tales and Short Stories: Cruiskeen Lawn and the Dialogic Imagination". The Review of Contemporary Fiction 31.3
(Fall 2011). Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. 162-177.
Cornwell, Neil. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Purloined Absurd’. The Absurd in Literature. Manchester: Manchester UP,
2006. 251-78Costello, Peter. ‘Mylesian Mysteries’. Sunday Independent (6 December 1987).
Cronin, Anthony. Chapter 6 [on Brian O’Nolan]. Dead as Doornails. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
—. 'An Extraordinary Achievement'. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Imhof,
Rüdiger. Dublin: Wolfhound, 1985. 107-112.
—. 'After At-Swim'. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Imhof, Rüdiger. Dublin: Wolfhound,
1985. 112-118.
—. 'Squalid Exegesis: Biographical Reminiscence — Part the First'. Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien.
Eds. Anne Clune [Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 37-45.
Cronin, John. ‘Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds’. The Anglo-Irish Novel, Vol II. Belfast: Appletree 1990. 170-82.
—. "Brother of the More Famous Flann: Ciarán Ó Nualláin". New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. 3.4 (Winter,
1999): 9-17.
Cronin, Michael. “Mental Ludo: Ludic Elements in At Swim-Two-Birds.” Conjuring Complexities: Essays
on Flann O'Brien. Ed. Anne Clune [Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's
University Belfast, 1997: 47-52.
Curran, Steven. ‘“No, This is not from The Bell”: Brian O’Nolan’s 1943 Cruiskeen Lawn Anthology’. Éire-Ireland
32.2-3 (Summer-Autumn 1997): 79-92.
—. ‘Designs on an “Elegant Utopia”: Brian O’Nolan and Vocational Organisation’. Bullán, V, 2 (Winter/Spring
2001). 87-116.
—. “Could Paddy Leave Off from Copying Just for Five Minutes?”: Brian O’Nolan and Eire’s Beveridge Plan’.
Irish University Review, 31, 2 (Autumn/Winter 2001). 353-76.
Davison, Neil R. ‘“We are not a doctor for the body”: Catholicism, the Female Grotesque, and Flann
O’Brien’s The Hard Life’. Literature and Psychology: A Journal of Psychoanalytic and Cultural Criticism
45.4 (1999): 31-57.
Day, Jon. 'Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn: Bibliographical Issues in the Republication of Myles na gCopaleen's
Journalism'. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four
Courts Press, 2011. 32-48.
de Paor, Louis. ‘Myles na gCopaleen agus Drochshampla na dDealeabhar’, The Irish Review, 23 (Winter 1998). 24-32.
—. “An tsídheoig is an scian dochtúra: Flann O’Brien agus seanlitríocht na Gaeilge”.Cín Chille Cúile: Texts, Saints
and Places. Essaysin Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain. Eds John Carey, Máire Herbert, Kevin Murray. Aberystwyth:
Celtic Studies Publications, 2004.
Devlin, Joseph. ‘The Politics of Comedy in At Swim-Two-Birds’. Éire-Ireland 27.4 (Winter 1992): 91-105.
Dewsnap, Terence. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Politics of Buffoonery’. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 19.1 (July 1993):
22-36.
Dobbins, Gregory. ‘Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O’Brien’s At
Swim-Two-Birds’. Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42.1 (2009): 86-108.
—. “Flann O’Brien and the Politics of Idleness”. Lazy Idle Schemers: Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of
Idleness. Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2010. 179-204.
Doherty, Francis. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Existentialist Hell’. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 15.2 (December 1989): 51-67.
Donovan, Stewart. ‘Finn in Shabby Digs: Myth and the Reductionist Process in At Swim-Two-Birds'. Antigonish
Review 89 (1992): 147-53.
Downum, Denell. ‘Citation and Spectrality in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds’. Irish University Review 36.2
(Autumn/Winter 2006): 304-20.
Dotterer, Ronald. L. ‘Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, and The Dalkey Archive’, New Hibernia Review 8.2 (Summer 2004):
54-63.
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Simpson, Paul. 'The Interactive World of The Third Policeman'. Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien. Eds. Anne
Clune [Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 73-81.
—. “Phatic Communication in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman”. Perspectives on the English Language in Ireland:
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Hiberno-English. Eds. John Harris, David Little, David Singleton. Dublin:
Trinity College Dublin, 1986.
Sorrentino, Gilbert. ‘Reading Flann Brian O’Brien O’Nolan’. Context 1 (April 2005). Accessed 12 April 2011.
<http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/article/show/2>.
Spenser, Andrew. ‘Many Worlds: The New Physics in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman’. Éire-Ireland 30.1 (Spring
1995): 145-58.
Sturgess, Philip J. M. “Narrative Despotism and Metafictional Mastery: The Case of Flann O’Brien’s At
Swim-Two-Birds”. Narrativity: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 235-259.
Taaffe, Carol. ‘“Tell me this, do you ever open a book at all?”: Portraits of the Reader in Brian O’Nolan’s At
Swim-Two-Birds’. Irish University Review 34.2 (Autumn-Winter 2004): 247-60.
—. 'The Pathology of Revivalism: An Unpublished Manuscript by Myles na gCopaleen'. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
32:2: 27-33.
—. 'Plain People and the Corduroys: The Citizen and the Artist. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien inthe Twenty-First
Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 112-126.
Throne, Marilyn. ‘The Provocative Bicycle of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman’. Éire-Ireland 21.4 (Winter 1986):
36-44.
Tigges, Wim. ‘Ireland in Wonderland: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman as a Nonsense Novel’. The Clash of Ireland:
Literary Contrasts and Connections. Ed. C.C. Barfoot and Theo D’haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. 195-208.
—. “Flann O’Brien”. An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988. 205-216.
Tóibín, Colm. "Flann O’Brien’s Lies". London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 1 · 5 January 2012. 32-36.
Toynbee, Philip. 'A Comic Heir of James Joyce'. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Rüdiger Imhof.
Dublin: Wolfhound, 1985. 47-50.
Uí Chollatáin, Regina. "Óige agus Aois an Dearthár Eile: Ciarán Ó Nualláin, Iriseoir agus Scríbhneoir Gaeilge". Comhar
71.12 (Nollaig 2011). 14-20.
Voelker, Joseph C. ‘“Doublends Jined”: The Fiction of Flann O’Brien’. Journal of Irish Literature 12.1 (Jan. 1983):87-95.
Wain, John. ‘To Write for My Own Race: The Fiction of Flann O’Brien’. Encounter 29 (July 1967): 71-85.
Revised and expanded version inJohn Wain, A House for the Truth: Critical Essays. London: Macmillan,
1988. 67-104.
Wall, Mervyn. ‘A Nightmare of Horror and Humour’. Hibernia 31.9 (September 1967): 22.
—. ‘The Man Who Hated Only Cods’. Irish Times (2 April 1966).
Wang, W. Michelle. "Lightness of Touch: Subtracting Weight from the Narrative Structure of At Swim-Two-Birds". The
Review of Contemporary Fiction 31.3 (Fall 2011). Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Champaign, IL: Dalkey
Archive Press, 2011. 134-147.
Warner, Alan. ‘Flann O’Brien’. A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1981. pp. 153-65.
Waters, Maureen. “Flann O’Brien and Mad Sweeny”. The Comic Irishman. Albany: State University of New York Press,
1984. pp. 123-136.
West, Anthony. 'Inspired Nonsense'. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Imhof, Rüdiger. Dublin:
Wolfhound, 1985. 44-45.
White, Jerry. "Irish Literature is Not Comparative Literature". [Analyses Gaelic language games in An Beal Bocht].
ESC: English Studies in Canada, Volume 32, Issue 2-3, June/September 2006. 115-140.
White, Michael. ‘Observations on Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds in Translation’. Revista Alicantina de Estudios
Ingleses 5 (1992): 155-61.
Whybrow, Samuel. 'Flann O'Brien's Science Fiction: An 'Illusion of Progression' in The Third Policeman'. ‘Is It
About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Jennika Baines. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
127-141.
Wong, Donna I. “Following the Law of the Letter: Myles na gCopaleen’s An Béal Bocht”. New Hibernia Review Vol. 4.3
(Autumn 2000): 93-106.
Young, Steven. 'Fact/Fiction: Cruiskeen Lawn'. Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien. Eds. Anne Clune
[Clissmann] and Tess Hurson. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. 111-118.
7.
Journalism &
Print Media:
Primary/Secondary Reviews & Author Profiles
Primary/Secondary Reviews & Author Profiles
Section Contents
a. Reviews of BO'N's Primary Texts
b. Author Profiles
c. Reviews of Secondary Literature about BO'N's Works
d. Reviews and Reports from Flann O'Brien Events
(a)
Reviews of Brian O'Nolan's Primary Texts
At Swim-Two-Birds
Anon. 'Review of of At Swim-Two-Birds'. The Dublin magazine, Vol. XIV, Ser. New, No. 3, July-September, 1939. pp.
102-103.
Borges, Jorges Luis. ‘When Fiction Lives in Fiction’ (1939) [review of At Swim-Two-Birds]. The Total Library:
Non-Fiction: 1922-1986. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger.
London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1999. 160-62.
O’Brien, Kate. ‘Fiction’ [includes review of At Swim-Two-Birds]. Spectator (14 April 1939): 646.
O'Loughlin, Ed. The book that changed my life: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, The New Statesman (1996), August
24, 2009, Vol.138 (4963), p.45. (accessed Jan 6 2012)
<http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/08/book-birds-swim-brien-irish>
An Beal Bocht
P.O’S. 'A Review by P. O'S. of An Béal Bocht by Myles na gCopaleen; of Eachtra na Beiche by M. Ó Cionnfhaolaidh;
of Sgéalta Ríogh na nGaoth, translated by Pádraig Ó Móghráin; and of An Cnota Glas, translated by P.
Mac Seághain'. The Bell, Vol. III, No. 5, February, 1942. pp. 405-406.
Faustus Kelly
Watts, Richard. 'Guest critic: A Review of Myles na gCopaleen's Faustus Kelly'. The Bell, Vol. V, No. 6, March, 1943.
pp. 482-487.
The Hard Life
F. S. C. 'Review of The Hard Life by Flann O'Brien, of If anything should happen by Kevin O'Hara and of Leo and
Rosabelle, by Bryan Guinness'. The Kilkenny magazine: an all-Ireland literary review, No. 6, Spring, 1962. pp. 57-59.
Webb, W.L. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Misterpiece’. Manchester Guardian (17th November 1961).
The Dalkey Archive
F. S. C. Review of The Dalkey Archive: A Mixture of Several Ingredients'. The Kilkenny magazine: an all-Ireland literary review,
No. 12-13, Spring, 1965. pp. 140-141.
Macintyre, Tom. 'Review of The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien'. The Dublin Magazine, Spring, 1965. p. 86.
The Third Policeman
Lister, Richard. ‘Three Stiff Policeman and a Soul called Joe’. Sunday Times (3 October, 1967).
The Best of Myles
Boyle, Patrick. ‘At Whim-Few Surds’. Hibernia (October 1968).
Collected Novels
Updike, John. ‘Back Chat, Funny Cracks: The Novels of Flann O’Brien’. New Yorker (11, 18 Feb 2008): 148-52. Online
(accessed Aug 18 2011) <www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/02/11/080211crbo_books_updike>.
(b)
Author Profiles
Behan, Brendan. “Secret Scripture”. The Irish Times Digital Archive (1874 – Current File); 30 July 1960; ProQuest
Historical Newspapers.
Benstock, Bernard. "Flann O’Brien in Hell; The Third Policeman". Bucknell Review (May 1968): 67-78.
Boylan, Roger. "We Laughed, We Cried: Flann O'Brien's Triumph". The Boston Review (July/August 2008).
Online version (accessed August 22 2011): <http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/boylan.php>.
Butler, Eoin. "Humour Down to a Science". The Irish Times (1 October, 2011). Online version (accessed 14
November, 2011): <www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305062315.html>.
Cooper, Stanford Lee [as "Anon"]. "Eire’s Columnist: An Interview with Brian O’Nolan". Time: The Weekly Wagazine.
Vol. XLII, No. 8. (23 August 1943). New York: Time Inc., 1943. Online version (subscription needed):
<www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885086,00.html>.
Fallon, Gabriel. "Copaleen O’Brien". The Standard (7 Feburary 1943).
Hogan, Thomas. "Myles na gCopaleen". The Bell, Vol. XIII, No. 2, November, 1946. pp. 129-140.
Hopper, Keith. ‘With Love and Squalor’ [‘Critic at Large’ essay on Flann O’Brien]. The New Statesman (15 August
2011): 44-45. Online version: ‘No Joy in Slight Here’ (15 August 2011).
<http://www.newstatesman.com/fiction/2011/08/flann-brien-nolan-irish-joyce>.
Hughes, Catherine. ‘Discovering Flann O’Brien’. America (3 May 1969): 523-525.
Kington, Miles. ‘Myles out in Front’. The Times (7 December 1968).
Massie, Alex. "The Genius of Myles na Gopaleen". The Spectator (1 April 2011). Online version (accessed 28 February
2012). <www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/6832530/the-genius-of-myles-na-gopaleen.thtml>.
McNally, Frank. 'The Pride of the 'Times''. The Irish Times. (1 October 2011). Online version (accessed 14
November 2011). <www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305061543.html>.
O'Connell, Mark. "The Flann O’Brien Centenary". [‘Book Bench’ blog on Flann O’Brien] The New Yorker. (23
September, 2011). Online version (accessed 20 March 2012):
<www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/09/the-flann-obrien-centenary-1.html#entry-more>.
Ó Nualláin, Micheál. 'The Brother: Memories of Brian' (exceprts from The Brother (Myles), Dublin, 2011). The Irish Times
(1 October, 2011). Online version (accessed 15 November, 2011):
<www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305062293.html>.
O'Neil, Joseph. "The Last Laugh: A Comic Genius Who Died Young is Finally Getting his Due". The Atlantic
Magazine. (May 2008). Online version (accessed 22 March, 2012):
<www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/05/the-last-laugh/6769/>.
O'Toole, Fintan. 'The Fantastic Flann O'Brien'. The Irish Times (1 October, 2011). Online version (accessed
14 November, 2011): <www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305062073.html>.
Rich, Nathaniel. "Why Flann O'Brien Is So Funny: The unsung Irish genius who belongs up there with Joyce and
Beckett". Slate Magazine, Feb. 18, 2008. Online version (accessed Aug. 18 2011). <www.slate.com/id/2184551>.
Salvesen, Christopher . ‘Irish Myles’. New Society (5th September 1968).
Sheridan, Niall. ‘The World of Flann O’Brien’. R.T.E. Guide (13th November 1970).
Simple, Peter. ‘Myles na Gopaleen’. Daily Telegraph (5th April 1966).
Wain, John. ‘Myles and Flann’. Observer (8th September 1968).
Wheatley, David. 'Flann and the Language of Silence'. The Irish Times (1 October, 2011). Online version (Accessed
14 November, 2011): <www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1001/1224305061322.html>.
(c)
Reviews of Secondary Literature about F O'B's Works
Brooker, Joseph. 'The Man in the Hat' [Dual Review of Hopper, Keith. Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Postmodernist. 2009; Taaffe, Carol. Ireland through the Looking Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and
Irish Cultural Debate. 2008]. Modernism/Modernity, (17:1), 2010 Jan. pp. 233-238.
Curran, Steven. Review of Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien by Anne Clune, Tess Hurson. The
Modern Language Review, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 204-205.
Hopper, Keith. ‘The balm and the bane of the intelligentsia’ [review of ‘Is it about a bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the
Twenty-first Century, Ed. Jennika Baines (Four Courts Press, 2011)], Irish Times (26 March 2011), Weekend
Review section: 11. Online version (accessed Aug. 19 2011).
<www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0326/1224293117975.html>.
Imhof, Rüdiger. ‘Cronin’s Miles Inglorious’ [review of No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien
by Anthony Cronin]. Irish Times (11 November 1989).
Keefe, Joan. Dual Review of Stories and Plays by Flann O'Brien and Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings
by Anne Clissmann. World Literature Today, Vol. 51, No. 1, "Homage to Elizabeth Bishop, Our 1976
Laureate" (Winter, 1977), pp. 141-142.
Mahon, Vincent. Review of Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction to His Writings. The Story-Teller's Book Web by Anne
Clissmann. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1978), pp. 420-421.
Nejezchleb, Amy. Review of Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate
by Carol Taaffe. New Hibernia Review, Volume 13, Number 2, Samhradh/Summer 2009, pp. 156-158.
O Hehir, Brendan P. Review of A Flann O'Brien Reader by Stephen Jones. World Literature Today, Vol. 54, No. 1,
"The Two Literatures of Finland" (Winter, 1980). p. 155.
Pilling, John. Review of Flann O'Brien's Exorbitant Novels by Thomas F. Shea. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 89,
No. 4 (Oct., 1994), pp. 992-993.
Smyth, Thomas. 'Review of No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin'. World
Literature Today, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), p. 159.
Wall, Mervyn. "A review of A Flann O'Brien Reader" byJones, Stephen. Ed. The New Republic 178.7 (18 Feb. 1978):
31-33.
Wheatley, David. 'Review of Flann O’Brien at War: Myles na gCopaleen 1940-1945, ed. John Wyse Jackson. Times
Literary Supplement, 21 July, 2000, p.29.
(d) Reviews and Reports from Flann
O'Brien Events
100 Myles: The International Flann O'Brien Centenary Conference (Vienna, July 2011)
Ó Caoimh, Ian. "Comhálacha an Chéid: Tuairisc ar Roinnt Imeachtaí". Comhar 71.12 (Nollaig 2011). 39-43.
8. Theses about Flann
O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen / Brian O’Nolan
Anderson, Samuel. ‘Pink Paper and the Composition of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim- Two-Birds’. MA Thesis. Louisiana
State University, 2002. Accessed 12 April 2011.
<http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0830102-090058/unrestricted/Anderson_thesis.pdf>.
Baines, Jennika. "Flann O'Brien and the Catholic Absurd". PhD Dissertation. Volume 10839 of Ph.D. Thesis.
University College Dublin, 2009. For the listing on the University College Dublin Online catalogue see here.
Cohen, David. 'Conclusion of the Foregoing: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien. Unpublished Ph.D.
1988.
Coulter, Philip. "The Artist and the Critic; Flann O'Brien's novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman".
MA Thesis, McGill University; submitted 28 Ju1y 1971. Online version accessed 1 December 2011.
Available here.
Davis, Victoria. ‘Restating a Parochial Vision: A Reconsideration of Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, and Brendan
Behan’. PhD Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, 2005. Accessed 12
April 2011. <http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/1532>.
Donohue, Keith. “The Writer as Self-Evident Sham: Flann O’Brien’s Comic Vision”. PhD Dissertation. Catholic
University of America, 2001.
Epp, Michael Henry. ‘Saving Cruiskeen Lawn: Satirical Parody in the Novels and Journalism of Flann O’Brien
(Myles na gCopaleen)’. MA Thesis. McGill University, Toronto, 1999. Accessed 12
April 2011. <http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0023/MQ50512.pdf>.
Flaherty, Michael. “Irish Post-Joycean Experimental Novelists: O’Brien, Beckett, and Banville”. PhD Dissertation.
Northern Illinois University, 2000.
Gillespie, Alana. 'Men Without Whereness: Spectres and Haunting in Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive'. MA thesis, Utrecht University, 2005.
—. ‘Brian O’Nolan’s Comic and Critical Reconception of Narratives of the Embellished
Past in Independent Ireland, 1938-1966’. PhD Dissertation. Utrecht University, 2010. Accessed 12
April 2011. <http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2010-1022-200216/UUindex.html>.
Jones, Philip W. “The Mechanics of Artifice: A Study of Flann O’Brien”. MA Thesis. Oxford University, 1982. PhD
Dissertation. Washington University, 2002.
Kelly, David Francis. "A Reading of Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth". University
of Sydney, 1979.
Klein, Ernst-Ulrich. Die frühen Romane Flann O'Briens: At Swim-Two-Birds und The Third Policeman, ein Beitrag zur
Gescchichte des englischen Romans ["The Early Novels of Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third
Policeman, a Contribution to the History of the English Novel"]. Münster: Münster University Press, 1971.
MacKillop, James. "The Myth of Finn Mac Cool in English Literature: A Study of a Celtic Archetype in the Works of
James Macpherson, Flann O'Brien, James Joyce". Unpublished Dissertation: Syracuse University, 1975.
McCloskey, Ciaran. "Flann O'Brien's Ironic Nationalism". Texas State University, December 2009.
McNamara, Donald. “Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan) and Liam O’Flaherty: Refashioning Myth and Nationhood”.
PhD Dissertation. Catholic University of America, 2001.
Meyer, Jürgen. "Allegorien des Wissens: Friedrich Dürrenmatts Durcheinandertal und Flann O'Briens The Third Policeman
als ironische Kosmographien". Dissertation, Universität Konstanz, 2000.
Pilný, Ondřej. "Humour and Despair in The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien." MA Thesis. Prague, 1995.
Powell, David. "The English Writings of Flann O'Brien". Unpublished Dissertation, University of Southern Illinois,
1970.
Ruczaj, Maciej. '(Post)modern Inferno: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman between Medieval and Modern
Netherworlds". Diploma thesis, assigned 13th November 2007. Supervisor Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.
Smith, J. Fitzpatrick. “Neither Here Nor There: The Literary Cartographies of Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, and Paul
Muldoon”.
Thibodeau, Clay. ‘Treating the Literary Literally: The Reflexive Swim-Two-Birds’. MA Thesis. University of
Saskatchewan, 2003. Accessed 12 April 2011.
<http://library2.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-09082003-131223/unrestricted/Thibodeau.pdf>.
Venus, Wesley Clay. “Inescapable Contextuality: Functions of Metafictional Paradox in Tristram Shandy and At
Swim-Two-Birds”. MA Thesis. Mississippi State University, 2002.
Vintaloro, Giordano. L'A(rche)tipico Brian O'Nolan. Comico e riso dalla tradizione al post-. [Italian: "The A(rche)typical
Brian O'Nolan. Comic and Laughter from Tradition to Post-"]. Trieste: Battello Stampatore, , 2009.
<http://amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it/938/1/Tesi_Vintaloro_Giordano.pdf>.
Wäppling, Eva. ‘Four Irish Legendary Figures in At Swim-Two-Birds: Flann O’Brien’s Use of Finn, Suibhne, the
Pooka and the Good Fairy’. Diss. Uppsala University, 1984.
Yurkoski, Chris. ‘Self-evident Shams: Metafiction and Comedy in Three of Flann O’Brien’s Novels’. MA Thesis.
University of Western Ontario, 1998. Accessed 12 April 2011.
<http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/MQ33473.pdf>.
