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CONTEXT: Gilbert Sorrentino on Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien is one of the half-dozen or so greatest comic writers in the English language of this or any other century, the equal of such geniuses of comedy as Sterne, Joyce, Beckett, Waugh, and Firbank. His mastery of comedic prose, its nuances, tropes, and subversions, is of such high degree that the merest gesture of his stylistic hand can turn a sentence or phrase from its course as sober conveyor of information to sabotager and ridiculer of that same information. It may be that literature is the last profession for which training does not equip its practitioners to understand its power over them: hence writers' reliance on hunches, talismans, coincidences, luck. www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no1/sorrentino.html   (1217 words)

The Third Policeman - Lostpedia The Third Policeman is a novel by the Irish author Flann O' Brien (a pseudonym which Brian O'Nolan adopted for the all his published work). The author, Flann O' Brien, was an Irish novelist and political commentator. As Flann O'Brien, he published three wildly funny novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939, rep. 1960), The Dalkey Archive (1964), and obviously The Third Policeman (1967). lostpedia.com /wiki/Flann_O'Brien   (1001 words)

O'Brien, Flann - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) As Flann O'Brien, he published three wildly funny novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939, rep. 1960), The Dalkey Archive (1964), and The Third Policeman (1976), and well as Faustus Kelly (1943), a play. Queering knowledge in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Patrick McGinley's impressions of Flann O'Brien: 'The Devil's Diary' and 'At Swim-Two-Birds.' www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ob1rien-f1.html   (315 words)

63xc.com--Stories | Flann Lives! Flann O'Brien was one of a series of pen-names adopted by the Irish writer Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966) during a long and complex career in which he was civil servant, journalist, novelist and playwright, sometimes all at the same time. Cyclists will find references to their favourite mode of transportation dispersed throughout his work, but the posthumously-published novel The Third Policeman, perhaps the only work of literature in which the romantic lead is played by a bicycle, will be of particular interest. Flann sites here, here and here keep the flame alive. www.63xc.com /johnward/flano.htm   (1491 words)

At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien - Penguin UK Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, in a typical O'Brien conundrum, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Flann O'Brien's blend of farce, satire and fantasy result in a remarkable, astonishingly innovative book. www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141182681,00.html   (124 words)

Blather: Flann O'Brien: Comic Genius As civil servants were not allowed to write under their own names, O'Nolan introduced a vast array of pseudonyms - and so for over thirty years, Myles na gCopaleen wrote the 'Irish Times' column 'Cruiskeen Lawn', a satirical take on life in Ireland. Today, it is Flann O'Brien that most people are familiar with, and the novels 'he' wrote. It's a bit hard, trying to write an article about Flann O'Brien, when you know next to nothing about the man and all you have by way of recommendation for the job is an endless capacity for delight in his work. www.blather.net /blather/2003/11/flann_obrien_comic_genius.html   (726 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Flann O'Brien at War: Myles Na GCopaleen, 1940-45: Books: Flann O'Brien,Hector McDonnell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) This is a collection of writings from the Irish satirist Flann O'Brien, edited from more than 3000 columns which appeared daily in the "Irish Times" under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen. Tracking the shocking disintegration of this bright young writer, philosopher and social commentator, we witness Myles' steady decline, as his sparkling wit darkens in an alcoholic tragedy of the mind. Tracking the shocking disintegration of this bright young writer, philosopher and social commentator, the author chronicles Myles na gCopaleen's steady decline, as his sparkling wit darkens in an alcoholic tragedy of the mind. www.amazon.co.uk /Flann-OBrien-War-GCopaleen-1940-45/dp/0715630253   (801 words)

Flann O'Brien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Subtitled "An Exegesis of Squalor," this is a sober farce from a master of Irish comic fiction. An Beal Bocht - Myles na gCopaleeen (Flann O'Brien) www.irishbook.com /cat303.htm   (211 words)

Flann O'Brien O'Brien's was a comic and surreal world of steam trains and bicycles, eternities of porter and seven day whiskey, theological banter and molecular theory, doggerel verses, a catechism of clichés and pseudo-intellectual chit-chat. It is probable that Flann O'Brien remains without equal as a humorist in the English language. Flann O'Brien: A Critical Introduction by Anne Clissman. www.paul-hyde-author.com /obrien.html   (511 words)

Scriptorium - Flann O'Brien His English novels appeared under the name of Flann O’Brien, while his great Irish novel and his newspaper column (which appeared from 1940 to 1966) were signed Myles na gCopaleen or Myles na Gopaleen – the second being a phonetic rendering of the first. Her most daring writers, like Beckett and Joyce, had gone abroad, but Flann O’Brien never lived outside Ireland (though he did casually mention to a credulous American journalist that he had lived in Germany, where he had got into a spot of bother with the Nazis in a beer hall). The Catholic Church still had a tight grip on the state, as seen in the debacle of the Mother and Child Scheme, an attempt to extend social care to pregnant women that was spiked by the Church on the grounds that it interfered with the institution of the family. www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/obrien.html   (5017 words)

The Neglected Books Page » Blog Archive » The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien The works of Flann O’Brien are not neglected at all–at least in Ireland. All of his books can be found on the shelves of any major Dublin bookstore, as can a number of compilations and critical volumes. Flann was a pen-name of Brian O’Nolan; under another, Myles na Gopaleen, he was for years a popular comic columnist for The Irish Times. neglectedbooks.com /?p=37   (2026 words)

Amazon.co.uk: The Third Policeman (Paladin Books): Books: Flann O'Brien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) It was written by the Irish journalist Flann O'Brien in the 1960s and is a very strange book. Flann O'Brien (real name Brian O'Nolan, who also wrote under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen) is a genius. His imagination, his turn of phrase, his sense of humour, each of these would be the envy of many an acclaimed author. www.amazon.co.uk /Third-Policeman-Paladin-Books/dp/0586087494   (2131 words)

John Flann Family History In 1920 they built their second farm home, this is the farm that was bought by their son Harry and is now owned by his wife Violette. His son Howard now owns the home place and his children are of the fifth generation of Flanns having lived on the farm. Daughter of Charles Flann who was the son of John Flann. www2.mozcom.com /~bobtib/roots/flann/jflanhis.html   (925 words)

Flann O'Brien: A Biographical Introduction Sodden with whisky, the elder Flann O'Brien struggled to keep writing in tune with his preternaturally subtle ear. In this essay the writer is referred to consistently as Flann O'Brien. Flann O'Brien is in fact a pseudonym, and the writer's real name was Brian O'Nolan or, in the Gaelic spelling, O Nuallain. www.necessaryprose.com /obrien.html   (4125 words)

disinformation | flann o'brien: comic genius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) As civil servants were not allowed to write under their own names, O'Nolan introduced a vast area of pseudonyms - and so for over thirty years, Myles na gCopaleen wrote the 'Irish Times' column 'Cruiskeen Lawn', a satirical take on life in Ireland. A stunning excerpt from 'The Third Policeman' concerning the bicycles of the locality, his grandfather, and the grandfather's horse. Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of fl air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death. www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id317/pg1/index.html   (859 words)

Flann microwave about us The US operation, Flann Microwave Inc. was established in Boston in the 1980’s to support the Company’s sales activities in the USA. Flann’s on-going policy of maintaining the highest standards ensures that the Company’s global reputation for quality, reliability and performance will continue into the future. Flann, Flann Microwave and Flann Microwave Incorporated are trading names of Flann Microwave Limited. www.flann.com /About_Us/about_us.html   (327 words)

Flann O'Brien. Introduction to Irish writer Flann O'Brien. Flann O'Brien, also known as Brian O'Nolan The novel shows a great command of language, with dozens of different styles represented and, true to its own injunction that the modern novel should be “largely a work of reference,” it contains over 40 extracts from other works. A braver critic than I has given the following barest of bare plot outlines: it is “a book (by Flann O’Brien) about a man writing a book (a student narrator) about a man writing a book (Dermot Trellis)” (Hopper). Within this complicated structure, characters cross over from different narrative levels, mixing with their own authors, mythical characters and stock figures from trashy literature and films. www.threemonkeysonline.com /articleFlann_OBrien_an_introduction.htm   (1046 words)

Flann O’Brien’s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Flann O’Brien’s, in Mission Hill, is kind of like a pint of Guinness: dark and somewhat mysterious. Specifically, the killer curry fries, which come solo or as part of the Flann O’Brien’s Pub Platter ($8.95), an appetizer plate loaded with onion rings, potato skins, chicken wings, and spicy bangers (Irish sausages). Flann O’Brien’s, located at 1619 Tremont Street, in Boston, is open daily from 1l a.m. www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/food_drink/cheap/documents/02421873.htm   (315 words)

Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien is the pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan who was born in Co. Tyrone in 1911. Flann O'Brien: Myles from Dublin (1991) by Monique Gallagher Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (1995) by Keith Hopper www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /o/flann-obrien   (189 words)

Flann O'Brien Manuscripts and Criticism The outbreak of World War II drew attention away from what is arguably O'Nolan's major literary achievement, but he continued his newspaper column and wrote other novels: AN BEAL BOCHT (THE POOR MOUTH), THE HARD LIFE, THE DALKEY ARCHIVE, and the posthumously-published THE THIRD POLICEMAN, actually written in 1940. 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. The second series, Criticism, is represented by a typescript draft of Thomas F. Shea's FLANN O'BRIEN'S EXHORBITANT NOVELS, which was published in 1992 by Bucknell University Press. www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/obrien.html   (489 words)

Microwave Components The new 2006 Flann catalogue is now available to (download) or available using the enquiry form. Flann has developed a NEW range of Double Ridge Components This new range of Double Ridge Components broadens our existing product line to include Directional couplers, Waveguide to Coax Adaptors, Calibration kits, Switches and Loads are offered in each of the double ridge frequency bands spanning the 2 to 40GHz range. www.flann.com   (123 words)

O'Brien, Flann Criticism and Essays Of [O'Brien's] very few books, The Hard Life and The Dalkey Archive are slight but funny (they have also been largely ignored by English critics), but At Swim-Two-Birds is probably a masterpiece…. Flann O'Brien did, in fact, discover a means of counterpointing myth, fiction and actuality through the device of a sort of writer's commonplace-book…. There is no feeling of recession, of one order of reality (myth or novel or narration) lying behind another: all are presented on the same level. www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/o-brien-flann   (151 words)

SSRN-Estopped by Grand Playsaunce: Flann O'Brien's Post-colonial Lore by Joseph Brooker This article seeks to extend our understanding of the Irish writer Flann O'Brien (Myles na gCopaleen, Brian O'Nolan) by reading him from a Law and Literature perspective. I suggest that O'Nolan's painstaking and picky mind, with its attention to linguistic nuance, was logically drawn to the languages of law. I propose that his attention to textual detail prefigures in comic form the substantial rereadings of the Constitution that have been made in the last half-century. papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=513670   (319 words)

Flann O'Brien - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK Flann O'Brien - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home Flann O'Brien is the pseudonym of Brian Ó Nualláin, who was born in 1911. After a brilliant student career at University College, Dublin, he did linguistic research in Germany and then joined the Irish civil service. www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000024227,00.html   (240 words)

Flann O' Brien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) By clicking here, you have begun to learn about the source inspiring both DeSelby and Omnium, the genesis of our corporate mythology; the books of this fine Irish author, whose real name was Brian O'Nolan (born 1911, died 1966). In Flann's writings, you may learn about making the finest whiskey in a week, finding Omnium in shoeboxes, the philosopher DeSelby (most often cited in footnotes), molecule theories, postmen, life, death, bicycles, and much more. And yet another site for Flann information has now come to light. www.omnium.com /flann.html   (254 words)

Amazon.ca: The Third Policeman: Books: Flann O'Brien,Denis Donoghue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) A comic trip through hell in Ireland, as told by a murderer, The Third Policeman is another inspired bit of confusing and comic lunacy from the warped imagination and lovably demented pen of Flann O'Brien, author of At Swim-Two-Birds. I just got done reading Flann O' Brien's "The Third Policeman" and I must say it is one of the best books I have ever read: and for me, that is saying a lot. Third, the creation of De Selby shows that Flann O'Brien is a story-telling genius, so much so that the first time I read this book I thought that De Selby actually existed!! www.amazon.ca /Third-Policeman-Flann-OBrien/dp/156478214X   (1103 words)

Flann O'Brien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Flann O'Brien was born Brian O'Nolan in County Tyrone, on 5 October 1911, and grew up in Dublin. He was a civil servant for eighteen years, but in the 1930s began writing a bi-lingual column for The Irish Times under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen (Myles of the Small Horses). There are a number of websites dedicated to Flann O'Brien including The Flann The Flann O'Brien Page at Dalkey Archive Press www.irishwriters-online.com /flannobrien.html   (230 words)

Dr.Nicholas Flann Flann N. S., Hu J., Bansal M., Patel V. and Podgorski G. Biological Development of Cell Patterns: Characterizing the Space of Cell Chemistry Genetic Regulatory Networks, Eighth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK, September 2005 Sasaki Y., Flann N. S., and Box P.W. The Multi-agent games by Reinforcement Learning Applied to on-line Optimization of Traffic Policy. Paul J Lewis, Dr. Nicholas Flann, Mitchel R. Torrie, Eric A.Poulson, Thomas Petroff5. www.cs.usu.edu /~flann   (167 words)

Flann O'Brien Summary Flann O'Brien was the best-known pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan (1911- 1966) (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain), a twentieth century Irish novelist and satirist. Born on October 5, 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, the third of twelve children in the fami... Get the complete Flann O'Brien Summary Pack, which includes everything on this page. www.bookrags.com /Flann_O'Brien   (296 words)

Kathy Flann, Blackbird Kathy Flann has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, where she also served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including The North American Review, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, Yemassee, The Barcelona Review, and Third Coast, and have been selected for the anthologies The O. Henry Festival Stories (1998) and New Stories from the South (Algonquin, 1996). Currently, she is the program director for creative writing at St Martin’s College in Lancaster, England. www.blackbird.vcu.edu /v5n1/fiction/flann_k/index.htm   (97 words)

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien | LibraryThing The poor mouth (An béal bocht); a bad story about the hard life. Molloy ; Malone dies ; The unnamable by Samuel Beckett (52/347) Edited by Myles na Gopaleen (Flann by Flann O'Brien www.librarything.com /catalog/58506   (233 words)

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