The International Flann O’Brien Society
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The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
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Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
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Winners of 2025 Flann O'Brien Awards Announced!
Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or e...
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We are delighted to announce the winners of the ✨2025 Flann O'Brien Society Awards!✨ Congratulations to Brian Ó Conchubhair for Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O’Brien: An Saol Bocht and to Joseph LaBine, ‘“Information, Please”: Brian O’Nolan and the Radio’. Two excellent, important works!
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I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇
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11. Katherine Ebury: Flann O’Brien, death and the law
Katherine and Toby dissect death in 'Two in One' before exploring Irish executions, reading Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and turning to Flann, the energy humanities, and the geological turn.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I really enjoyed the latest episode of "Radio Myles: The Flann O'Brien Podcast" in which Katherine Ebury (one of my favourite O'Brien scholars) discusses law, the death penalty and necropolitics in "Two in One" (one of my favourite O'Brien texts)! Listen here👇
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
radiomyles.substack.com/p/11-katheri...
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“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
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"Two Saint Patricks? We have four of the buggers in our place and they'd make you sick with their shamrocks and shenanigans and bullshit."
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"Two Saint Patricks? We have four of the buggers in our place and they'd make you sick with their shamrocks and shenanigans and bullshit."
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive
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Class Four - Le Traitement Superbe - of Myles' Buchhandlung service.
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Delighted to have supplied bulk stock to Dublin's new Illusion Museum ( on College Green) illusionmuseumdublin.ie (It's well worth a visit, particularly if you have bored teenagers) We can cater to any bulk book order for retail, hospitality or interior design needs. #bulkbooks #speirgorm
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Class Four - Le Traitement Superbe - of Myles' Buchhandlung service.
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Yesterday's #AScareADay read was "Two in One" by Flann O'Brien. In this story, a taxidermist kills his boss, then makes a skin-suit out of him. However, his plan to masquerade as his boss and cover up the crime goes awry when the dead man's skin fuses to his own and becomes permanent. #WyrdWednesday
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yesterday's #AScareADay read was "Two in One" by Flann O'Brien. In this story, a taxidermist kills his boss, then makes a skin-suit out of him. However, his plan to masquerade as his boss and cover up the crime goes awry when the dead man's skin fuses to his own and becomes permanent. #WyrdWednesday
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#AScareADay Day 21 – Two in One by Flann O’Brien
Maybe drinking whiskey after an impulsive murder did not lead to the best decisions here. But, sure, why not go for the skin suit option when you had an incinerator *right there*
Maybe drinking whiskey after an impulsive murder did not lead to the best decisions here. But, sure, why not go for the skin suit option when you had an incinerator *right there*
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#AScareADay Day 21 – Two in One by Flann O’Brien
Maybe drinking whiskey after an impulsive murder did not lead to the best decisions here. But, sure, why not go for the skin suit option when you had an incinerator *right there*
Maybe drinking whiskey after an impulsive murder did not lead to the best decisions here. But, sure, why not go for the skin suit option when you had an incinerator *right there*
O'Brien's short story 'Two in One' is the disturbing tale of a taxidermist who murders his boss and then decides to...
#AScareADayashtag/AScareADay" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AScareADay – Day 21 – Two In One by Flann O’Brien
Today's #AScareADay is a great body horror short from Flann O'Brien - gives #Together vibes. I've written a bit more of the necromancy story from Day 11 for this one!
Today's #AScareADay is a great body horror short from Flann O'Brien - gives #Together vibes. I've written a bit more of the necromancy story from Day 11 for this one!
#AScareADay – Day 21 – Two In One by Flann O’Brien
Today's #AScareADay is a great body horror short from Flann O'Brien - gives #Together vibes. I've written a bit more of the necromancy story from Day 11 for this one!
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October 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
O'Brien's short story 'Two in One' is the disturbing tale of a taxidermist who murders his boss and then decides to...
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"From this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane ."
Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it.
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10. The Society in Strabane
Podcast Episode · Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 38m
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October 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"From this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane ."
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Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻
Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction
This article argues that Brian O’Nolan’s fiction consistently stages sound as a material force, one that becomes most tangible at the moment of its mediation. Drawing on theories of sonic materiality ...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻
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Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
10. The Society in Strabane
Podcast Episode · Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 38m
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October 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Very cool audio conference report by @maebhm.bsky.social from this summer's International Flann O'Brien Society conference in Strabane - both helping and exacerbating my FOMO for having missed it.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...
In the next episode of everyone’s favourite podcast, Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane. It’s a knockout episode so get those headphones on agus éisigí anseo!
10. The Society in Strabane
In this guest edition of Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In the next episode of everyone’s favourite podcast, Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane. It’s a knockout episode so get those headphones on agus éisigí anseo!
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Honestly, we need Flann O'Brien back among us.
So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Honestly, we need Flann O'Brien back among us.
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
- Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds
born on this day, 1911
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- Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds
born on this day, 1911
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#FlannO’Brien
October 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
- Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds
born on this day, 1911
#BookSky
#FlannO’Brien
- Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds
born on this day, 1911
#BookSky
#FlannO’Brien
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IS IT ABOUT A BICYCLE?
Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')
Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')
October 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
IS IT ABOUT A BICYCLE?
Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')
Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')
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Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.
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Andromeda Remembers Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin;, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature, on his birthday.
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October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Andromeda Remembers Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin;, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature, on his birthday.
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✨On this day in history -- October 5, 1911 , Brian O'Nolan AKA Flann O'Brien was born in Strabane, Tyrone✨🍀💚🇮🇪
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
✨On this day in history -- October 5, 1911 , Brian O'Nolan AKA Flann O'Brien was born in Strabane, Tyrone✨🍀💚🇮🇪
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Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe.
He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:
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He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:
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October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe.
He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!
Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions
This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally
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October 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
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Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!
Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!
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At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1967)
Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats
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Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats
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October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1967)
Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats
#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign
Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!
Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...
parishreview.openlibhums.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!