Applications for a new, 2 year postdoctoral position are now open! Please share widely. The Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, based at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, is open to Ph.D. graduates in any area of Irish studies.

Excited to receive✨️proofs✨️for my chapter on exploitations of nonhuman skins in At Swim, An Béal Bocht & Two in One via book production, clothing, taxidermy In "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", ed Anne Fogarty, Scott Hamilton, Erika Mihálycsa: out soon from @corkup.bsky.social!

The key to understanding how Irish government policy is designed and implemented is to always keep in mind that the satirist and surrealist author Flann O’Brien, also had a highly successful and distinguished career in our civil service.

"a pivotal moment in Flann O’Brien studies...a landmark in O’Brien scholarship and the broader nonhuman turn" - Thierry Robin's Études irlandaises review of "Flann O'Brien & the Nonhuman", which I'd the pleasure of editing with Katherine Ebury & John Greaney journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...

cc: @flannobriensoc.bsky.social

Fascinating. From Flann O'Brien to Beckett, and lots in-between.. #Banjax www.wordorigins.org/big-list-ent...

On the overground to work. A man is *glaring* at me as if I'm some terrible miscreant. Sir, I am a 37 year-old man reading a Flann O'brien novel with some coconut water. I'm not sure what kind of threat I pose

“There are four winds and eight sub-winds each with its own colour. The wind from the east is a deep purple, from the south a fine shining silver. The north wind is a hard black and the west is amber.” (Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman)

Maybe this is just a deeeeeeeep cut Flann O’Brien reference.

Post a book quote that you love.

[15] Kernoff advocated modernism at a time when much Irish art was conservative & provincial. He was unique in being based in Ireland & innovative. Up the Workers Republic Ireland (nd), Flann O’Brien (nd) & Emergency Hat, Self Portrait (1941)

I read "The Third Policeman" last week, and against the world we're living in today it doesn't seem so mad or hellish, but thankfully Flann O'Brien still makes me laugh. #SpéirGhorm

The Guardian is apparently inviting readers to name their three favourite novels. My own list would probably run something like this: * Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian * The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien * The Non-Existent Knight - Italo Calvino #booksky

We're on tenterhooks! Bets for Flann for #1 and #2?

“If I hear that word Joyce again, I will surely froth at the gob.” - Flann O’Brien

EXTREMELY EXCITING news about 'Killing Kelly', a film adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s ’Two in One’ starring Jason Isaacs and Thomasin McKenzie. Production to begin in Dublin later this year and we cannot wait for the skin-tingling, skin-wearing, skin-fusing comedy horror.

'Born Brian O’Nolan, Flann O’Brien is another beloved literary alumnus of UCD, having studied here from 1929 to 1932. A member of the Literary and Historical Society, O’Brien was a keen writer even during his university years.'

Shall we do a quick whip around? Also, how happy would the man be at costing more than Joyce?

The Flann O’Brien society remembers Werner Huber with great affection, gratitude and respect.

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (6/20)

Feel I need to put in a word for Flann O'Brien At War: Myles na gCopaleen 1940-45 edited by the great John Wyse Jackson. (You will of course already have a well-WAAMA'd copy of The Best of Myles.)

I love this book. By Flann O'Brien. Get it from the library or buy from an independent book shop.

The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien, should be compulsory reading for physics students. It should be compulsory reading for everyone, whether they're a student or even just a T-Test.

Flann O'Brien (1911-1966) is fun. Now, bear in mind, I also think that Joyce is fun so make of that what you will.

Flann O’Brien/Brian Ó Nualláin aged 14 on Herbert Place, D2

James Joyce, speaking of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien, said that they were his "son of laughter" and his "son of tears". But which was which? Horror and cozy are the way of projection and the way of manifestation. But which is which? Both give readers space to explore how to respond to change.

Happy 60th anniversary He was a fine pancake @flannobriensoc.bsky.social @frankie49.bsky.social

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting When Money’s tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt-- A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN. Flann O'Brien 🎨 Martin Driscoll (1939-2011)

A Flann O'Brien thread about pancakes.

“The Workman’s Friend” — Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nolan) When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night - A pint of plain is your only man.

☘️ ¡Feliz Día de San Patricio! Hoy os recomendamos uno de los libros más divertidos de la literatura irlandesa: «La boca pobre», de Flann O’Brien. La novela fue escrita en gaélico y la traducción es de nuestro querido Antonio Rivero Taravillo #diadesanpatricio #sanpatrickday

“A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.” - Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.” (Flann O’Brien “At Swim-Two-Birds”) 🎨 Jim MacDonald

Tis the season youtu.be/BYudr9FAGOA?...

Next in the playlist for music to read Flann O'Brien by is Isa Gordon's 8Men. Mixing electronica and folk, Gordon's album is also influenced by her teenage listening to indie, emo, the glory of Bowie and even some classical music. Her album is inspired by Flann O’Brien’s novel The Poor Mouth.

'I read Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth [...] & found my first true love in Irish literature. The characters get woefully, superlatively mistreated by the Irish countryside, by the state, each other, by the endless rain and the diabolical Sea Cat—all [...] with an absurdist, roguish surrealism'

As Flann O'Brien said of Joyce, "That poor writer's end was hastened by that same intrusive apostrophe." (Though not referring to this Penguin cover in particular)

The seminal account of a lost 1950's bohemian Dublin in a handsome new edition from @lilliputpress.bsky.social & a new introduction from Joseph O'Connor. Both melancholy and sharp, portraits of Behan, Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien . Dead as Doornails - Anthony Cronin. thebookshop.ie/anthony-cron...

Yeah, sure, new books are great, but do you ever read old books? Have you ever read 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O’Brien? It's a brilliantly absurd story of a village police force and a brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle. drbslibrary.com/thirdpoliceman

Now, for your listening pleasure, the latest instalment of the podcast Radio Myles. Toby Harris and Joseph LaBine provide fascinating context to mid-century Irish radio and their excellent special issue of the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies on O’Brien and the Radio. Get your headphones ready!

Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

#Books A Good Read Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, chosen by crime writer @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, chosen by @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Thursday Night Widows by Claudia Pineiro, chosen by @harriettsg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My other favourite wild reading book is The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien. Now I’m wondering if it was never published in his lifetime partly because of worries about its digressive, footnotey anti-structure. His At Swim-Two-Birds was at least as wild but in yet another way. Genius

"Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill!" —Flann O'Brien, after reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Flann O'Brien reports: www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Call for Proposals for a new edited collection on 'Transformations: Irish Literature and Social Change’: the artistic works which have reflected and even helped to activate what could be described as a revolution in the Irish experience of class, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Get your tickets for ATHRAITHEOIR at the Smock Alley Theatre on 26 February. Strongly influenced by Flann O'Brien, ATHRAITHEOIR bends Buile Shuibhne (The Madness of Sweeney) into a multidisciplinary performance of oration, movement and Irish literary echo.

Now published in the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, Jonathan O'Neill's review of Brian Ó Conchubhair's award-winning biography 'Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O’Brien: An Saol Bocht'. #speirgorm