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Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds Two days later I was cow-punching down by the river in Ringsend with Shorty Andrews and Slug Willard, the toughest pair of boyos you'd meet in a day's walk. These two principles of novelistic creation are to be linked with a third notion, one which answers the question: What actually happens when a writer creates a new character? The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. www.necessaryprose.com /swimtwobirds.html   (1573 words)

At Swim-Two-Birds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American writer Gilbert Sorrentino paid homage to the book with his sprawling 1979 novel Mulligan Stew, itself a novel about the writing of a novel, with characters drawn from other works (including At Swim-Two-Birds) who wreak havoc upon the fictional author and the text itself. While O'Nolan wrote other novels, none achieved either the level of complexity or playfulness of At Swim-Two-Birds, and thus his accomplishments have not been as recognized as those of his contemporaries. Interlaced with the two interior fictions is the author's college career through a term at school. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/At_Swim-Two-Birds   (493 words)

At Swim, Two Boys, Constant Reader Discussion At Swim, Two Birds, is the title of one of FOB’s books.) I loved the liberties JON took with language. Incidentally, the question of the Irishmen who fought and died for the British Empire in two world wars remains a vexed one- the government of the Republic is reluctant to acknowledge their sacrifice and I don't believe that there is any official memorial. Two Dublin boys would fall in love, and in their friendship discover their country, a country whose freedom was worth their fight." R There is nothing to do with a day except to live it. www.constantreader.com /discussions/atswimtwoboys.htm   (6835 words)

Jamie O'Neill / At Swim, Two Boys / reviews / US Two boys swim out from the Forty Foot, a “gentlemen’s bathing-place” on the rocky Dublin shore, to plant the Irish flag on tiny islands where once either rebel patriots or doubtful pirates were abandoned, depending on whose legends you believe. This swim is what Jim Mack and his friend Doyler have promised each other, a deliberate risk in tricky seas, but that is the least of their promises: each is giving his whole self to the other. Ultimately, however, as it traces the growing love between two young Irishmen and the growth of their political and nationalist consciousness, it is clear that Jamie O’Neill has written something new and significant – the novel that might have happened, as one commentator put it, if Joyce and Oscar Wilde had had a son. www.iol.ie /~atswim/atswim/reviews/us.html   (7628 words)

at swim two birds our first release is planned for 17.03.03 & will be an album by at swim two birds with the title “quigley’s point”. www.montgolfiers.co.uk /vands/index2.html   (127 words)

Title page for ETD etd-0830102-090058 This thesis is an analysis of the two surviving typescripts of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. After a brief overview of both typescripts, the thesis focuses on the earlier of the two, especially its use of pink paper, and suggests (based on subject matter, pagination, and stylistic patterns) that the pink pages were written before the typescript's white pages, and therefore that they represent O'Brien's earliest conception of the novel. etd.lsu.edu /docs/available/etd-0830102-090058   (99 words)

hellshaw.com - flann o'brien/myles na gcopaleen - At Swim-Two-Birds His teeth were well formed but stained by tabacco, with two molars filled and a cavity threatened in the left canine. There was nothing unusual in the appearance of Mr John Furriskey but actually he has one distinction that is rarely encountered - he was born at the age of twenty-five and entered the world with a memory but without personal experience to account for it. His knowledge of physics was moderate and extended to Boyle's Law and the Parallelogram of Forces. www.hellshaw.com /flann/atswim.html   (397 words)

SetDance.Com - At Swim Two Birds Just when they were sitting down for a good tuck-in, the P.P. gets a sick call and away with him on his white horse after telling the two visitors to eat away and not to mind him or to wait for him. Well after a bit the two said they were very full and would like to stretch their legs. Two young priests from Clongowes or somewhere, you understand, smart boys, doctors and all the rest of it. www.setdance.com /archive/at_swim_2_birds.html   (1364 words)

At Swim Two Birds - Quigley's Point at AB-CD.com revolving around roger patrick martin quigley, at swim two birds has been in an embryonic state since the end of the 'nineties, during which time ten songs slowly evolved to form the basis for "quigley's point", already described by poptones boss alan mcgee as "a deep, dark album with light peeking out". the vespertine & son record label is proud to announce its first release, "quigley's point", the debut album by salford-based at swim two birds. At Swim Two Birds - Quigley's Point at AB-CD.com www.ab-cd.com /icbin/media/VSON1   (316 words)

Jamie O’Neill / At Swim, Two Boys / reviews / Australia/NZ Comparisons between At Swim, Two Boys and Joyce are inevitable, (and if the title echoes Flann O’Brien’s At Swim, Two Birds, the text certainly doesn’t) but a more relevant exemplar would be Dickens. At Swim, Two Boys is the story of the love between two Dublin boys set against a backdrop of political and moral rebellion and repression. At Swim, Two Boys is a masterpiece which manages to combine accessibility and readability with erudition and verbal pyrotechnics. www.iol.ie /~atswim/atswim/reviews/australia.html   (3194 words)

Literary Encyclopedia: At Swim Two Birds As At Swim's Brinsley remarks: “There are two ways to make big money […] to write a book or to make a book” (24), and his student friend seems to follow the latter path. At Swim pitches Irish mythological heroes into contemporary Dublin and careers wildly between literary (and non-literary) styles; it presents a cruelly bathetic portrait of the artist and even masquerades as a 'work in progress' – the title under which portions of Finnegans Wake (1939) were published during the 1920s and 1930s. The frame for At Swim's many narratives is an autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young student in 1930s Dublin. www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6483   (2305 words)

Flann O'Brien: A Biographical Introduction The two were working together in the house, laying linoleum near an open window. Outside were a group of people conversing in Gaelic, but it was Gaelic with a heavy Offaly accent, which the son immediately began to mimic. A family anecdote recounts the moment when, well before his son's attendance at the Christian Brothers school, the father had to face the fact that his son's reading in English was undermining the family's Irish-only policy. www.necessaryprose.com /obrien.html   (4125 words)

MonkeyFilter England's first documented serial killer Looking at the bottom of this article, At Swim Two Birds, it appears that the movie was never made. ))) for a fine monk-y tale, At Swim Two Birds! Thanks At Swim, and thanks for reminding me how long it is since I read any Flann O'Brien, an error i shal rectify ASAP. monkeyfilter.com /link.php/7737   (2625 words)

Metadata: a current view of practice and issues For example, Flann O'Brien is the author of At swim two birds. My copy of At swim two birds is the 'first Four Square edition 1962'. These Band two formats include the simpler sorts of metadata built by hand, and the more complex of the automatically generated records (often manually amended and enhanced). www.ukoln.ac.uk /metadata/publications/jdmetadata   (10997 words)

August 1999 Birds and animals congregate with their own kind and make noises when they find food or become alarmed. Two HOT notices: (1) Project Xanadu (external link), the hypertext system that wanted to change the world, has gone open source! It seems to me that calenders, whether country or city, private or public, social or cosmic, essentially boil down to two things and two things only: attention and learning. www.alamut.com /past/9908.html   (8148 words)

At Swim-Two-Birds 'At Swim Two Birds' contains an excellent retelling of the King Sweeney myth - an Irish king/lord who was turned into a bird - which is where the book gets its title. The three of us were occupied in putting glasses of stout into the interior of our bodies and expressing by fine disputation the resulting sense of physical and mental well-being. Similar to Joyces last two works it is the novel removed. www.toddler-pig-costumes.com /prod/156478181X/At_Swim-Two-Birds.html   (1375 words)

Xulism I provide here two passages from At Swim-Two-Birds which relate to my studies of Neurocam: from page 9... I suggest either of his two most well-known volumes; Image, Music, Text or SZ. I don't wish to dwell on this for too long, as I find it inhibiting to wait for stragglers. anjafarber.blogspot.com   (1586 words)

Swim Two Birds - ZeBOX Artist Swim Two Birds, the fourth — new ideas from that ominous place in the mind in which all of this here and a lot more is possible. Swim Two Birds [ jazz ] :: music :: gigs :: photos :: comments :: email :: donate :: webpage Copyright notice: All songs and material on this page copyrighted by Swim Two Birds and protected by copyright law and by international treaties. zebox.com /swim2birds   (573 words)

Amazon.com: At Swim, Two Boys: Books The sheltered son of a pro-British shopkeeper, 16-year-old Jim develops a doting and eventually homosexual relationship with Doyler, a bright boy from an impoverished family, as the two train for an ambitious swim across Dublin Bay on Easter 1916, a date that happens to coincide with a planned Republican uprising. I'm not referring here to the fact that its three lead characters are gay, since "At Swim, Two Boys" is so much more than "a gay novel" and since, while often sensuous, it is hardly erotic. Irishman Jamie O'Neill was working as a London hospital porter when his 10-year labor of love, the 200,000-word manuscript of At Swim, Two Boys, written on a laptop during quiet patches at work, was suddenly snapped up for a hefty six-figure advance. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743222946?v=glance   (2969 words)

languagehat.com: Comment on HIBERNO-ENGLISH. studying o briens at swim two birds at the moment, very difficult text, most of the students feel the same way and hate it! There's a sequel to ASTB, which someone gave me as a present but was lost in a flood (how Joycean), and I can't remember the title -- it's by a different author altogether (an American, perhaps?) and takes the nestedness and Pirandello-ness of ASTB several levels beyond what anyone can stand. Two phrases 'Have a good day' and 'Give us this day our daily bread' sound almost identical. www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1160   (871 words)

Salon.com Books Better than green beer Myself, I divide all the people I have ever met into two broad categories -- my friends, and those who don't fall off their chair laughing heartily while reading O'Brien. Two choices for reading the rest of this article and all of Salon: On my soul, if she did not laugh at my favorite passages, I'd dump Angelina Jolie. www.salon.com /books/feature/2005/03/17/obrien   (228 words)

At Swim Two Birds at swim two birds' debut album "quigley's point" is now available. at swim two birds will be playing for the first time at tmesis (lloyd st, PS high-res 'At Swim Two Birds' images available for press use here www.vespertineandson.com /atswim.html   (161 words)

Brian O'Nolan Collection The original material is divided into two sections: correspondence and manuscripts. www.lib.siu.edu /projects/irish/boc.htm   (127 words)

Scriptorium - Flann O'Brien Keats and Chapman are the names given to two characters who have various adventures, all with the purpose of ending the story with a punch line consisting of a bad pun, guaranteed to surprise the reader and yet elicit a groan of recognition. Given his personal circumstances, it is amazing he managed to write the newspaper column – often six days a week, and sometimes, as legend has it, dictated from a drunken stupor – as well as stories and the occasional television work. Similarly, the novel proper is “contaminated” by de Selby, with several chapters beginning with the narrator musing on, for example, de Selby’s experiments with water, before returning to the plot of the novel. www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/obrien.html   (5017 words)

Flann O'Brien An Inventory of Manuscripts and Criticism at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center At Swim-Two-Birds is represented by two typescript drafts. The first of these, Works, embraces the manuscripts of two of his five novels, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Dalkey Archive, together with manuscript materials relating to his play Faustus Kelly. O'Nolan's play Faustus Kelly is represented by two manuscripts (each contained in a ruled notebook), together with a number of unbound leaves of dramatic writing for that 1943 play. www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00102/hrc-00102.html   (548 words)

IRISH MYTH We will also have two weekend field trips: one to Sligo to explore “Yeats Country” and one to Belfast to confront “The Troubles.” English V150: People taking the course for advanced common curriculum credit will be required to write two reader response papers. Participation in class field trips is also required: we will be going to museums, theatres, and historic sites. www.loyno.edu /~mckay/irish_myth_syllabus.htm   (368 words)

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Critical Survey: 'A lacuna in the palimpsest': a reading of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds. Critical Survey: 'A lacuna in the palimpsest': a reading of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds. 'A lacuna in the palimpsest': a reading of Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds. The publication of Declan Kiberd's Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995) (1) was widely praised and embraced enthusiastically by critics, teachers and students and its impact has already been recognised as influencing recent criticism where scholars have been quick to apply Kiberd's approach to often fruitful ends. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2751/is_200301/ai_n9431485   (212 words)

Vol. III No. 14 ON THE AVENUE The title is, of course, a play on Flann O'Brien's book AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS, but the influence on this recent book is less O'Brien than it is James Joyce. Jim and Doyler make a secret pact: that after Doyler teaches Jim to swim, and after a year, on Easter 1916, they will jump of the hill cliff known as Forty Foot and swim the bay to the distant beacon on the Muglins rock. The two boys of the title are Jim, Mack's adolescent son, and his pal and eventual lover, Doyler. www.calamusbooks.com /newsletters/3/14   (2077 words)

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