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  1. Flann O'Brien. Brian O'Nolan ( Irish: 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, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in ...

    • Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen, Brother Barnabas, George Knowall
    • 1 April 1966 (aged 54), Dublin, Ireland
  2. Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish novelist and satirist Brian O'Nolan (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain), best known for his novels An Béal Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds, and The Third Policeman.

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  4. Mar 29, 2024 · Flann O’Brien (born Oct. 5, 1911, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ire.—died April 1, 1966, Dublin) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, and, as Myles na gCopaleen, a columnist for the Irish Times newspaper for 26 years. O’Brien was educated in Dublin and later became a civil servant while also pursuing his writing career.

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  5. 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 ("The Fourth Policeman"), as a play-on-words of ...

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    • April 1, 1966
    • October 5, 1911
  6. Dec 20, 2022 · Since The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 6.1 and 6.2, a special double issue, is dedicated to answering such questions under the rubric of ‘Brian O’Nolan and the Civil Service,’ it is appropriate that its cover images feature details of Ó Nualláin’s doodles from the notebook he kept in his role as Secretary for the ...

  7. Apr 1, 2016 · O’Brien was a philistine as well as a consummate prose stylist, an artist who threw away his talent, a Catholic who allowed himself to drift into the sin of despair, and a great comic ...

  8. 1976 Further Cuttings from”Cruiskeen Lawn”. 1976 The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother. 1977 The Hair of the Dogma: Further Cuttings from”Cruiskeen Lawn”. 1978 A Flann O’Brien Reader. 1985 Myles Away from Dublin. 1988 Myles Before Myles. 1994 Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green: The Insect Play. 1999 At War.