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	An Sgian - Myles na Gopaleen - P45 Rant
		Myles na Gopaleen's newly discovered drama, An Sgian, exposes the fascist Irish-language groups of the 1940s.
		The context of the dispute between Mac Phearsan and his wife is a truly Gaelic split that occurred in a branch of Conradh na Gaeilge in 1942.
		That the fascist and indeed racist tendencies of the movement remained uncompromised by the split is evident in Myles na Gopaleen's account of the street oratory of a member of Glún na Buaidhe denouncing jazz dancing as "the product of the dirty ###### culture of America".
	www.p45rant.net /boards/showthread.php?t=22491 (1341 words)

	Myles na gCopaleen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Myles na gCopaleen (or Myles na Gopaleen) was the pseudonym used for his journalism by Brian O'Nolan (Irish Brian Ó Nuallain), who also wrote novels under the name Flann O'Brien.
		The first column appeared on 4 October 1940, under the pseudonym "Myles na gCopaleen" ("Myles of the Little Horses").
		The prefix 'na g...' is the Irish genitive, so Myles na gCopaleen means "Myles of the Little Horses".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myles_na_gCopaleen (730 words)

	UCD News
		The fictional character he created in Myles na Gopaleen allowed him to transcend the limits of chronological time, fixed personality, and daily life.
		Myles na Gopaleen was at once swash-buckling, irascible, ingenious, hilarious, and ruthless.
		Myles na Gopaleen was at his funniest when he turned his attention to Irish daily life – lampooning the plain people of Ireland and the supposedly superior people too.
	www.ucd.ie /news/mar06/032306_flann_obrien.htm (463 words)

	Amazon.ca: Best of Myles Na Gopaleen: Books: Flann O'Brien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some of these are unavoidably the nature of the material - Myles na Gopaleen wrote a regular column for an Irish newspaper for a quarter of a century, so the very local concerns discussed in some of the pieces render them impenetrable to all but Irish historians.
		That 'the Best of Myles' remains one of the last century's few genuinely important books is entirely due to the indestructible persona(e) of Myles himself, hypercultured, alcoholic, visionary verbal contortionist with pretensions to aristocratic heritage.
		His phlegmatic invective at local problems such as sewage systems and the civil service are less valuable than his assault on language as it had (has?) degenerated into cliche and received opinion in the culturally sterile Ireland of the 1940s and 50s; and in his post-modern project of demolishing hierarchies of linguistic and artistic endeavour.
	www.amazon.ca /Best-Myles-Gopaleen-Flann-OBrien/dp/0330248553 (1261 words)

	Three Monkeys Truth is an odd number, and Death is a full stop. Flann O'Brien - Ireland's comic Genius
		O’Brien used the pen name Myles na Gopaleen (Myles of the little horses, or – according to himself – Myles of the ponies) and the column came to be known as An Cruiskeen Lawn (Irish for “the little full jug”).
		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 that is usually a bad pun, guaranteed to surprise the reader and yet elicit a groan of recognition.
		Myles na Gopaleen is often a difficult curmudgeon of a character, with his war on cliché, bores, official Ireland, sections of the Irish language movement, and civil servants.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable.php?id=8 (3438 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Putting It On
		The Best of Myles (1968) a selection of na Gopaleen's columns in Irish, French and English, gathers together some of the funniest and most incisive pieces of creative vitality ever in newsprint.
		But the credit transparently belongs to Myles, the columnist concerned about the so-called preservation of Gaelic Ireland, and the satirist who could mock things Gaelic as he lamented their passing, even making fun of his own concerns.
		Na Gopaleen's wit cuts through the affectations and facile enthusiams of all Gaeligores and gives a glimpse of "the world as seen by the folk in Corkadoragha", a remote "Gaeltacht".
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=250892 (982 words)

	Scriptorium - Flann O'Brien Works
		Covering such subjects as plumbers, the justice system, and improbable inventions, O’Brien (whose real name was Brian O’Nolan, though his newspaper pseudonym was Myles na Gopaleen) is replete with zany humor and biting satire directed at the Irish and their preoccupations.
		When The Best of Myles was published in 1968, it was hailed (by S. Perelman among others) as one of the supreme comic achievements of the English language.
		Here can be found the true transcripts of Myles’s clashes with the law courts on charges of larceny, currency offenses, marrying without the consent of his parents, gang warfare, and using bad language; here too are bizarre obituaries, bores, banalities, jovialities and immoralities, and the return of the preposterous Brother.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/obrien_works.html (912 words)

	Seanfhocal Archive: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, Myles na Gopaleen has reserved his store of kind words for all kinds of Irish words, leaving few kind words to say about the few words in the English lexicon:
		Their life (not to say their language) becomes very complex at the century mark; but there you are.
		Myles na gCopaleen is the Irish-language pseudonym of Brian Ó Nuallain.
	www.daltai.com /proverbs/weeks/week109.htm (391 words)

	Na Gopaleen Myles
		myles na gcopaleen - pearly gates Flann O'Brien - from the cover of The Early Life of Brian O, the no-bicycle page: Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan...; - Flann O'Brien, aka Myles* na Gopaleen, aka Brian O'Nolan.
		Letteratura.; Myles na Gopaleen blog - From 1940 until his death, he wrote a political column called "Cruiskeen Lawn" for The Irish Times, under the pseudonym of Myles na Gopaleen; his biting,...; - Yet, through all poor Flann OâBrienâs tribulations, Myles na Gopaleen...
		L to R: John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Myles na Gopaleen, Patrick Kavanagh and Tom...; Myles na Gopaleen@Everything2.com - The orthography "Myles na Gopaleen" comes from the original Boucicault play.
	xoomer.alice.it /cdelvi/images/ebahqsqte (266 words)

	myles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The promise I made to address the question of the MJTT's (Myles Junior Think Tank's) patented solution to the problem of the SOH (Survival of Humankind) must, I regret to admit, be skirted, perhaps to be revived another day.
		This solution is based upon the well-established hypothesis that one of the functions of S is to increase the reflectance, or albedo, of PE (Planet Earth), thus causing PE to cool down from its current hothouse trajectory.
		For the last two (2) years, we have been discussing the SOH in secret sessions for which we are famous among the scientific elite.
	www.donquixoteridesagain.com /pages/myles.html (2179 words)

	Thirst: The Play
		A fluent Irish-speaker, Myles na gCopaleen published An Beal Bocht (The Poor Mouth, 1941), his only book in Gaelic: "a subversive anti-pastoral" novel (Kiberd), translated into English only in 1964.
		Still, sad as the unrealised fulfilment of his talent is, what we have between the covers of The Best of Myles, Stories and Plays, and particularly the three novels, belongs to the best of comic writing in the English (and Irish) language.
		It was back in the 1943 when Myles na Gopaleen/Flann O'Brien undertook his three ventures into the realm of the theatre.
	www.anglo-iren.de /thirst/thirst_p.htm (768 words)

	Onepotmeal: And kindred activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		All in all, as far as the circumstances of publication and reception are concerned—and let nobody who has not had to struggle with them sneer at their importance—[Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien aka Myles na Gopaleen’s] was not a happy literary history.
		Yet, through all poor Flann O’Brien’s tribulations, Myles na Gopaleen continued to be one of the most celebrated of Dubliners and his column, unfailingly brilliant and brilliantly adjusted to its Dublin audience, continued to appear daily.
		Still, as Cronin goes on to describe, the success of Myles allowed O'Nolan to hand in his column early in the morning and spend the rest of the day drinking on his laurels rather than writing the novels he lamented not finishing.
	www.onepotmeal.com /weblog/313/and-kindred-activities (371 words)

	Authority control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		O’Brien, Flann, 1911-1966 Na Gopaleen, Myles, 1911-1966 Knowall, George Na gCopaleen, Myles, 1911-1966 His At Swim-Two-Birds...
		(Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O’Brien)) His Myles away from Dublin, 1985: t.p.
		(Myles na Gopaleen (Flann O’Brien) selection from the column written for...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Authority_control (888 words)

	Myles O'Brien - Moviefone
		Under the pen name of Myles na gCopaleen ("Myles of the little horses" or...
		It wasn't merely Brian O'Nolan's frivolity or eccentricity that effected his concealment of himself behind such names as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen,...
		Myles O'Brien - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Myles O'Brien Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/myles-obrien/148111/main (91 words)

	The School Of Gobbledy Gook
		And lo, the principal Gopaleen na Lander moved among them and gave forth on the simplicity and logic of School Wide Rules and Consequences as laid out in a flow chart complete with sectional boxes and arrows.
		And Gopaleen na Lander patteth the child's head and respondeth, "Devises charged with consolidated quodwrits of quitbar or seigny-poke subsist thereafter in fee of grossplaysaunce, notwithstanding all copyholds of mesnemanor, socagemoign, interfee, mortlease, grand bastardy in copygross, subescheats of scutage, quousque, refeoffed disseisor of sub-seisin in seignyfrankalpuis and vivmain of copycharged serjaunty..."
		And it comes to pass that this racket is interupteth, as a cottage door suddenly flyeth open, a woman streaketh into the street, scoopeth up the small child under her arm, dasheth back up her driveway, and slammeth her portal behind her.
	www.stephaniepiro.com /fc170.htm (370 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press
		Flann O'Brien, whose real name was Brian O'Nolan, also wrote under the pen name of Myles na Gopaleen.
		Like The Best of Myles and Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn (both available from Dalkey Archive Press), At War is a collection of Flann O'Brien's columns written for the Irish Times under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen.
		Taken from the war years of 1940-45, these writings provide plenty of acerbic wit and persistent prodding of "the good people of Ireland." And in typical O'Brien fashion, no one is safe from his opinionated attacks.
	books.dalkeyarchive.com /book/each_book/24 (356 words)

	TIME.com: A Life Spent Making Merry -- Jan. 9, 1978 -- Page 1
		Myles na Gopaleen took up writing the odd play now and then but spent close to 25 years doing funny pieces for the newspapers.
		Nothing fades faster than newspaper humor, and some of the Myles na Gopaleen columns that Editor Jones resurrects should have stayed in the morgue.
		Humbug and absurdity have not gone out of fashion, and Myles was keenly aware of both.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,912092,00.html (591 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / April fool
		A Dublin civil servant for most of his adult years, O'Nolan's wildest fancies were improvised against a life of tedium, even despair.
		Strictly speaking, there was no Flann O'Brien; the name was a pseudonym used by the writer Brian O'Nolan, who performed as Myles na Gopaleen when he wrote his column for the Irish Times (from 1940 until his death in 1966), and as Flann O'Brien when he wrote novels.
		A Dublin civil servant for the majority of his 55 years, O'Nolan lived a life of parochial confinements and disappointments, stifled and pub-centric-a non-life, by comparison with his literary peers.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/27/april_fool?pg=2 (491 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Flann O'Brien
		Brian O’Nolan wrote under the pen names of Flann O’Brien and Myles na Gopaleen.
		Myles was feared as were some of the ancient Gaelic poets, who it was said could kill with a satire.
		Myles was a genial man, a wag, a humorist.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/obrien.html (2356 words)

	Template Hub, 101
		In his lifetime, Flann O’Brien was most well known as his alter-ego, Myles na gCopaleen, or Myles na Gopaleen to make it easier on his English readers’ mental pronunciation.
		He was primarily a columnist for the Irish Times, a job he performed to supplement his wages as a civil servant in the Customs House.
		Cruiskeen Lawn, a column for the Irish Times, as it was illegal to publish work under the same name as one appeared as a Civil Servant.
	personal.centenary.edu /~bthomas/flanndex.html (806 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Flann O'BRIEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Flann O’Brien and Myles na Gopaleen (1911-66), famous for his “Cruiskeen Lawn” column in the Irish Times and for his hilariously droll 1939 first novel, “At-Swim Two Birds,” acclaimed by James Joyce, Graham Greene and Dylan Thomas.
		A collection of 'Myles na Gopaleen's' columns which appeared in the "Irish Times." Boards lightly bumped, some spotting to upper edges else Very Good.
		O'Brien, Flann (Myles Na Gopaleen); Kevin O'Nolan (editor and preface) Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn Publisher: 189p.Hart-Davis, MacGibbon/London 1976.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Flann_O'BRIEN (819 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.
		However, O’Brien’s position in the civil service meant that he could not express political opinions under his own name, so he adopted the pen name Myles na Gopaleen (Myles of the little horses, or – according to himself – Myles of the ponies).
		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.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/obrien.html (5017 words)

	Better than green beer - Salon
		In one, which can be found in the collection "The Best of Myles," he advertises a service to "maul the books of illiterate, but wealthy, upstarts so that the books will look as if they have been read and re-read by their owners.
		Each volume to be mauled savagely, the spines of the smaller volumes to be damaged in a manner that will give the impression that they have been carried around in pockets...
		Then there was the "Myles na gCopaleen Catechism of Clich," in which newspapers were combed for dead language.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2005/03/17/obrien/index.html (698 words)

	Flann O'Brien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This volume covers 1947-1957 and finds O'Brien's alter ego clashing with the law on numerous charges, including larceny, using bad language, and marrying without the consent of his parents.
		Subtitled "An Exegesis of Squalor," this is a sober farce from a master of Irish comic fiction.
		The Hard Life is straight-faced entertainment that conceals in laughter its own devious and wicked satire by one of the best known Irish writers of the 20th century.
	www.irishbook.com /cat303.htm (211 words)

	Myles na Gopaleen - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Myles na Gopaleen" at HighBeam.
		The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature; 1/1/2000; ROBERT WELCH; 40 words
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-m1ylesnag1.html (156 words)

	The best of Myles by Flann O'Brien \| LibraryThing
		Bunreacht na hÉireann =: Constitution of Ireland by Ireland (6/19)
		Edited by Myles na Gopaleen (Flann by Flann O'Brien
		This is a collection of the "Cruiskeen Lawn" columns that Flann O'Brien (born Brian O'Nolan) wrote for the Irish Times under the pseudonym of Myles na Gopaleen (Myles na gCopaleen).
	www.librarything.com /work/150007 (381 words)

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		Indeed, he was at pains to attend the same college as Joyce, and Joyce biographer Richard Ellman has established that O'Nolan, fully in keeping with his literary temperament, used a forged interview with John Joyce as part of his application.
		As Myles na gCopaleen, O'Nolan published a regular column entitled "The Cruiskeen Lawn" in the Irish Times, usually in English, but sometimes in Irish, and sometimes in Latin.
		A few knew that under the name of Flann O'Brien, he had written in his youth a now nearly forgotten novel, At Swim-Two-Birds and was yet to write The Dalkey Archive, in which the protagonist meets the aging James Joyce working as a barman in a pub in Skerries, north of Dublin..
	web.ncf.ca /bj333/HomePage.flann.html (16554 words)

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