I'm very pleased to publish an essay by myself and Joseph LaBine about the contexts for Flann O'Brien and the radio. We cover material, cultural and the Adornian theoretical surroundings for Irish radio that shaped writing in Ireland at this time: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

The latest article in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is 'Flann O’Brien and the Irish "Radio-Mind," 1926-1976' by Tobias W. Harris and Joesph LaBine. This article reads O’Nolan’s work within the context of contemporary theories of radio, tuning in to the crackle and static of the wireless.

Afternoon. Here's a slightly obscure mag (with a great name) from 1959. Nonplus only lasted for 4 issues but had some very well known names in its pages. This issue will be of interest to Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien fans in particular...Read it at oldzinescene.com/items/show/57 for free.

Our final staff pick of the year is this beautiful adaptation of Myles na gCopaleen's An Beál Bocht. #Speirgorm

I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇 radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.” ― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"Two Saint Patricks? We have four of the buggers in our place and they'd make you sick with their shamrocks and shenanigans and bullshit." ― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive

Class Four - Le Traitement Superbe - of Myles' Buchhandlung service. @frankie49.bsky.social @flannobriensoc.bsky.social

Yesterday's #AScareADay read was "Two in One" by Flann O'Brien. In this story, a taxidermist kills his boss, then makes a skin-suit out of him. However, his plan to masquerade as his boss and cover up the crime goes awry when the dead man's skin fuses to his own and becomes permanent. #WyrdWednesday

#AScareADay Day 21 – Two in One by Flann O’Brien Maybe drinking whiskey after an impulsive murder did not lead to the best decisions here. But, sure, why not go for the skin suit option when you had an incinerator *right there*

O'Brien's short story 'Two in One' is the disturbing tale of a taxidermist who murders his boss and then decides to...

"From this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane ."

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

In the next episode of everyone’s favourite podcast, Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane. It’s a knockout episode so get those headphones on agus éisigí anseo!

Honestly, we need Flann O'Brien back among us.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind. - Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds born on this day, 1911 #BookSky #FlannO’Brien

IS IT ABOUT A BICYCLE? Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

Andromeda Remembers Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin;, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.shop

✨On this day in history -- October 5, 1911 , Brian O'Nolan AKA Flann O'Brien was born in Strabane, Tyrone✨🍀💚🇮🇪

reading about how flann o’brien wrote so many letters to the irish times under different pseudonyms who he’d get to argue with eachother across the letters page that some real letter writers were later assumed to be his inventions

Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe. He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1967) Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats #penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) Cliches 2)The Plain People of Ireland 3) Everything else

I'm so pleased to see the Einat Adar's review of my book, 'Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics', appear in the esteemed Litteraria Pragensia! The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...

New in @theparishreview.bsky.social > “Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction" by Zan Cammack: doi.org/10.16995/pr....

This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Dross, Nick Cave, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett, Rapture Captcha, Moose Allain, Ian Dury and Robert Fergusson with David Bowie. Subscribe if you like, I don't care. mailchi.mp/85e4e4daefd5...

Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6

I don’t know about specific books, but I feel like I never stop recommending Clive Barker, Angela Carter, and Flann O’Brien

First edition of At Swim-Two-Birds up for auction at Fonsie Mealy's. A steal at 3000 euro!

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine! parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine! The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction" Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

‘A cyclist is merged with their bike and goes into the office next week as if that’s completely normal.‘ Someone’s been reading Flann O’Brien.

"De Selby (Part 1)" by Hozier, 2023 Long ago, a high school English teacher recommended a book, "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien. I devoured it and met this character de Selby in footnotes. (But I've still got a forgotten bookmark in "At Swim-Two-Birds"...) 🎧 #musicsky #indierock #folk

✨Mark your calendars✨ If you are in Dublin 24 September be sure attend the launch of long-time Flaneur and Irish Times columnist Frank McNally's 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. Top shelf pun, @frankie49.bsky.social!

It’s always a good time to have your books professionally handled. Beware amateurs or biblioquacks who can leave your books stressed and their plots in array.

The Third Policeman is one of Mark Watson's funniest books: it “resembles a mad stand-up at work, and it was a real factor in setting me on my path to doing what I now do. [...] Straight into a surreal horror with a sensational opening line, it then takes them on a bicycle journey into the absurd.

'if there’s one book you might encourage people to read what would that be?' Desmond Clifford, Books Editor for Nation.Cymrum picked Flann O'Brien. "I'm a little reluctant to evangelise [...] but one of my favourites is Flann O’Brien’s “The Dalkey Archive”. I find it hilarious."