The International Flann O’Brien Society
@flannobriensoc.bsky.social
The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
✨Mark your calendars✨ If you are in Dublin 24 September be sure attend the launch of long-time Flaneur and Irish Times columnist Frank McNally's 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. Top shelf pun, @frankie49.bsky.social!
August 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
✨Mark your calendars✨ If you are in Dublin 24 September be sure attend the launch of long-time Flaneur and Irish Times columnist Frank McNally's 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. Top shelf pun, @frankie49.bsky.social!
Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality
June 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality
What a welcome we’ve been getting in Strabane!
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What a welcome we’ve been getting in Strabane!
Well, it’s Bloomsday! Here’s to all the versions and translations and reinterpretations of Joyce, including everyone’s favourite: ‘the one where he tries to join the Jesuits’ #speirgorm
June 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Well, it’s Bloomsday! Here’s to all the versions and translations and reinterpretations of Joyce, including everyone’s favourite: ‘the one where he tries to join the Jesuits’ #speirgorm
Tis himself at the Abbey Theatre
June 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Tis himself at the Abbey Theatre
👏New Flann O'Brien Publication Alert👏
"Yes No: Form & Content in The Third Policeman"
by Thomas Dilworth
In Essays in Criticism 75, no. 1 (January 2025): 42–74
On Flann O'Brien's attempts to imagine and represent essence without form, substance without concept, in his novel
doi.org/10.1093/escr...
"Yes No: Form & Content in The Third Policeman"
by Thomas Dilworth
In Essays in Criticism 75, no. 1 (January 2025): 42–74
On Flann O'Brien's attempts to imagine and represent essence without form, substance without concept, in his novel
doi.org/10.1093/escr...
March 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
👏New Flann O'Brien Publication Alert👏
"Yes No: Form & Content in The Third Policeman"
by Thomas Dilworth
In Essays in Criticism 75, no. 1 (January 2025): 42–74
On Flann O'Brien's attempts to imagine and represent essence without form, substance without concept, in his novel
doi.org/10.1093/escr...
"Yes No: Form & Content in The Third Policeman"
by Thomas Dilworth
In Essays in Criticism 75, no. 1 (January 2025): 42–74
On Flann O'Brien's attempts to imagine and represent essence without form, substance without concept, in his novel
doi.org/10.1093/escr...
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. This study uncovers new links between O’Brien and Borges, Kafka, Expressionism and Dada. Launched last week, get your copies from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. This study uncovers new links between O’Brien and Borges, Kafka, Expressionism and Dada. Launched last week, get your copies from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
February 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. This study uncovers new links between O’Brien and Borges, Kafka, Expressionism and Dada. Launched last week, get your copies from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. This study uncovers new links between O’Brien and Borges, Kafka, Expressionism and Dada. Launched last week, get your copies from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
David Lynch’s "dreams have become everyone’s dreams. In the right hands, even the most ridiculous of images – a bicycle, say, reimagined as a sinister, metaphysical instrument – can become radiant and infectious" (image @derek.bike)
(quote: headstuff.org/culture/lite...)
(quote: headstuff.org/culture/lite...)
January 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
David Lynch’s "dreams have become everyone’s dreams. In the right hands, even the most ridiculous of images – a bicycle, say, reimagined as a sinister, metaphysical instrument – can become radiant and infectious" (image @derek.bike)
(quote: headstuff.org/culture/lite...)
(quote: headstuff.org/culture/lite...)
✨Maebh Long Announced as International Flann O’Brien Society President✨
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long as the new IFOBS President!
Our thanks to outgoing President Paul Fagan, who is stepping down after 13 years at the helm.
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/751/
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long as the new IFOBS President!
Our thanks to outgoing President Paul Fagan, who is stepping down after 13 years at the helm.
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/751/
September 5, 2024 at 1:18 PM
✨Maebh Long Announced as International Flann O’Brien Society President✨
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long as the new IFOBS President!
Our thanks to outgoing President Paul Fagan, who is stepping down after 13 years at the helm.
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/751/
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long as the new IFOBS President!
Our thanks to outgoing President Paul Fagan, who is stepping down after 13 years at the helm.
🔗 parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/751/
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres"
by Paul Fagan
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
On material, literary, affective atmospheres in Flann O'Brien's novels and plays
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
"Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres"
by Paul Fagan
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
On material, literary, affective atmospheres in Flann O'Brien's novels and plays
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
August 27, 2024 at 10:58 AM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres"
by Paul Fagan
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
On material, literary, affective atmospheres in Flann O'Brien's novels and plays
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
"Flann O’Brien’s Vibrant Atmospheres"
by Paul Fagan
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
On material, literary, affective atmospheres in Flann O'Brien's novels and plays
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Milesian Rewritings of the Annunciation to the Virgin in ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ via Petronius, Dante, and Shakespeare"
by Dieter Fuchs
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
"Milesian Rewritings of the Annunciation to the Virgin in ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ via Petronius, Dante, and Shakespeare"
by Dieter Fuchs
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
August 27, 2024 at 10:45 AM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Milesian Rewritings of the Annunciation to the Virgin in ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ via Petronius, Dante, and Shakespeare"
by Dieter Fuchs
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
"Milesian Rewritings of the Annunciation to the Virgin in ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ via Petronius, Dante, and Shakespeare"
by Dieter Fuchs
In The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies 8.1 (Spring 2024) via @openlibhums.bsky.social
🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"'Forego the reality of all the simple things': On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s 'The Third Policeman'"
by Shahriyar Mansouri
Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2024)
🔗👉 doi.org/10.22034/jpi...
"'Forego the reality of all the simple things': On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s 'The Third Policeman'"
by Shahriyar Mansouri
Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2024)
🔗👉 doi.org/10.22034/jpi...
August 27, 2024 at 10:30 AM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"'Forego the reality of all the simple things': On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s 'The Third Policeman'"
by Shahriyar Mansouri
Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2024)
🔗👉 doi.org/10.22034/jpi...
"'Forego the reality of all the simple things': On Object-Oriented Reality as Metaphorical Vortex in Flann O’Brien’s 'The Third Policeman'"
by Shahriyar Mansouri
Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2024)
🔗👉 doi.org/10.22034/jpi...
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce"
by Thomas O’Grady
James Joyce Quarterly 61.1-2 (Fall 23-Winter 24)
Revisits Brian O'Nolan's role in the supposed "Interview with Mr. John Stanislas [sic] Joyce" Hoax
🔗👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/927913
"A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce"
by Thomas O’Grady
James Joyce Quarterly 61.1-2 (Fall 23-Winter 24)
Revisits Brian O'Nolan's role in the supposed "Interview with Mr. John Stanislas [sic] Joyce" Hoax
🔗👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/927913
August 27, 2024 at 10:11 AM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce"
by Thomas O’Grady
James Joyce Quarterly 61.1-2 (Fall 23-Winter 24)
Revisits Brian O'Nolan's role in the supposed "Interview with Mr. John Stanislas [sic] Joyce" Hoax
🔗👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/927913
"A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce"
by Thomas O’Grady
James Joyce Quarterly 61.1-2 (Fall 23-Winter 24)
Revisits Brian O'Nolan's role in the supposed "Interview with Mr. John Stanislas [sic] Joyce" Hoax
🔗👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/927913
So, not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but it was actually John Divney who first knocked old Mathers down by giving him a great blow in the neck with a special bicycle-pump he had manufactured himself out of a hollow iron bar.
August 6, 2024 at 8:55 PM
So, not everybody knows how I killed old Phillip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but it was actually John Divney who first knocked old Mathers down by giving him a great blow in the neck with a special bicycle-pump he had manufactured himself out of a hollow iron bar.
"A valuable addition to Irish and modernism studies" that "uncovers the complexity of texts that have been unduly neglected for too long"
Read Erika Mihálycsa's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out" (Cork University Press) in the latest issue of James Joyce Quarterly
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
Read Erika Mihálycsa's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out" (Cork University Press) in the latest issue of James Joyce Quarterly
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
May 31, 2024 at 8:48 AM
"A valuable addition to Irish and modernism studies" that "uncovers the complexity of texts that have been unduly neglected for too long"
Read Erika Mihálycsa's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out" (Cork University Press) in the latest issue of James Joyce Quarterly
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
Read Erika Mihálycsa's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out" (Cork University Press) in the latest issue of James Joyce Quarterly
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
"Dublin Culture"
Bealtaine Festival
Ballyroan Library, 22 May
Val O’Donnell & Tim Casey celebrate the writers featured in Alan Reeve's famous caricature "Dublin Culture" - including Flann O'Brien - in an evening of readings & performances from their works.
Details:
www.eventbrite.com/e/8922501933...
Bealtaine Festival
Ballyroan Library, 22 May
Val O’Donnell & Tim Casey celebrate the writers featured in Alan Reeve's famous caricature "Dublin Culture" - including Flann O'Brien - in an evening of readings & performances from their works.
Details:
www.eventbrite.com/e/8922501933...
May 14, 2024 at 8:23 AM
"Dublin Culture"
Bealtaine Festival
Ballyroan Library, 22 May
Val O’Donnell & Tim Casey celebrate the writers featured in Alan Reeve's famous caricature "Dublin Culture" - including Flann O'Brien - in an evening of readings & performances from their works.
Details:
www.eventbrite.com/e/8922501933...
Bealtaine Festival
Ballyroan Library, 22 May
Val O’Donnell & Tim Casey celebrate the writers featured in Alan Reeve's famous caricature "Dublin Culture" - including Flann O'Brien - in an evening of readings & performances from their works.
Details:
www.eventbrite.com/e/8922501933...
Myles na gCopaleen (back row, second from the left) at a diplomatic outing to Delgany Golf Club in 1945 along with Irish Times editor and club captain RM Smyllie and fellow author Brinsley McNamara.
Courtesy of Martin Doyle: x.com/MartinDoyleI...
Courtesy of Martin Doyle: x.com/MartinDoyleI...
April 23, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Myles na gCopaleen (back row, second from the left) at a diplomatic outing to Delgany Golf Club in 1945 along with Irish Times editor and club captain RM Smyllie and fellow author Brinsley McNamara.
Courtesy of Martin Doyle: x.com/MartinDoyleI...
Courtesy of Martin Doyle: x.com/MartinDoyleI...
Myles na gCopaleen references Samuel Beckett in his "Cruiskeen Lawn" column in The Irish Times.
(Belated Happy Birthday to Sam, born 13 April 1906)
(Belated Happy Birthday to Sam, born 13 April 1906)
April 14, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Myles na gCopaleen references Samuel Beckett in his "Cruiskeen Lawn" column in The Irish Times.
(Belated Happy Birthday to Sam, born 13 April 1906)
(Belated Happy Birthday to Sam, born 13 April 1906)
Happy Birthday to Kurt Palm, the director of "In Schwimmen-Zwei-Vögel" (1997), the only feature film adaptation of Flann O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds"!
Palm also directed the first German-language performance of "When the Saints Go Cycling In" (a stage adaptation of "The Dalkey Archive") in 1995.
Palm also directed the first German-language performance of "When the Saints Go Cycling In" (a stage adaptation of "The Dalkey Archive") in 1995.
April 12, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Happy Birthday to Kurt Palm, the director of "In Schwimmen-Zwei-Vögel" (1997), the only feature film adaptation of Flann O'Brien's "At Swim-Two-Birds"!
Palm also directed the first German-language performance of "When the Saints Go Cycling In" (a stage adaptation of "The Dalkey Archive") in 1995.
Palm also directed the first German-language performance of "When the Saints Go Cycling In" (a stage adaptation of "The Dalkey Archive") in 1995.
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Mid-Century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, and Edna O’Brien"
by Maria McGarrity
in "Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime" (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature, 2024)
www.routledge.com/Modern-Irish...
"Mid-Century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, and Edna O’Brien"
by Maria McGarrity
in "Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime" (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature, 2024)
www.routledge.com/Modern-Irish...
March 14, 2024 at 12:53 PM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Mid-Century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, and Edna O’Brien"
by Maria McGarrity
in "Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime" (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature, 2024)
www.routledge.com/Modern-Irish...
"Mid-Century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Kate O’Brien, and Edna O’Brien"
by Maria McGarrity
in "Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime" (Routledge Studies in Irish Literature, 2024)
www.routledge.com/Modern-Irish...
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse & Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s 'At Swim-Two-Birds'"
by Erika Mihálycsa
In Estudios Irlandeses 19 (2024)
On recycling and rewriting in At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2024/03/dimi...
"Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse & Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s 'At Swim-Two-Birds'"
by Erika Mihálycsa
In Estudios Irlandeses 19 (2024)
On recycling and rewriting in At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2024/03/dimi...
March 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse & Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s 'At Swim-Two-Birds'"
by Erika Mihálycsa
In Estudios Irlandeses 19 (2024)
On recycling and rewriting in At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2024/03/dimi...
"Diminishing the Authorial Footprint: Objects and Texts of Reuse & Refuse in Flann O’Brien’s 'At Swim-Two-Birds'"
by Erika Mihálycsa
In Estudios Irlandeses 19 (2024)
On recycling and rewriting in At Swim-Two-Birds
🔗 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2024/03/dimi...
📰Latest International Flann O'Brien Society Newsletter sent out to members! 🗞️
If you want to sign up to receive updates on the society's activities (journal issues, calls for papers, events, publications, and so on) drop us a DM here, or email us at newsletter.ifobs@gmail.com!
If you want to sign up to receive updates on the society's activities (journal issues, calls for papers, events, publications, and so on) drop us a DM here, or email us at newsletter.ifobs@gmail.com!
March 1, 2024 at 2:12 PM
📰Latest International Flann O'Brien Society Newsletter sent out to members! 🗞️
If you want to sign up to receive updates on the society's activities (journal issues, calls for papers, events, publications, and so on) drop us a DM here, or email us at newsletter.ifobs@gmail.com!
If you want to sign up to receive updates on the society's activities (journal issues, calls for papers, events, publications, and so on) drop us a DM here, or email us at newsletter.ifobs@gmail.com!
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O’Brien, and Modernist Temporality"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll", ed. Witen & Morgenstern (Bloomsbury, 2024)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modernism...
"Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O’Brien, and Modernist Temporality"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll", ed. Witen & Morgenstern (Bloomsbury, 2024)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modernism...
February 23, 2024 at 2:15 PM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O’Brien, and Modernist Temporality"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll", ed. Witen & Morgenstern (Bloomsbury, 2024)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modernism...
"Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O’Brien, and Modernist Temporality"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll", ed. Witen & Morgenstern (Bloomsbury, 2024)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modernism...
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", edited by Ebury, English, and Fogarty (@cupress.bsky.social, 2024)
Details: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
"An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", edited by Ebury, English, and Fogarty (@cupress.bsky.social, 2024)
Details: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
February 22, 2024 at 12:17 PM
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION ALERT👏
"An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", edited by Ebury, English, and Fogarty (@cupress.bsky.social, 2024)
Details: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
"An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse"
by Paul Fagan (@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social)
In "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", edited by Ebury, English, and Fogarty (@cupress.bsky.social, 2024)
Details: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...
"Opens new vistas for future research, while looking backwards to reassess, complicate, and sometimes correct previous assumptions about the author and his work"
Read Einat Adar's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out", in the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia!
doi.org/10.14712/257...
Read Einat Adar's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out", in the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia!
doi.org/10.14712/257...
February 6, 2024 at 4:24 PM
"Opens new vistas for future research, while looking backwards to reassess, complicate, and sometimes correct previous assumptions about the author and his work"
Read Einat Adar's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out", in the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia!
doi.org/10.14712/257...
Read Einat Adar's review of "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out", in the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia!
doi.org/10.14712/257...