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| | 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. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Accompanying AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS are a group of clippings relating to that novel's 1960 republication, together with a note from O'Nolan to Niall Montgomery, dated 21 September 1960. |
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