Flann O'Brien

Shelf-help for non-readers from Myles na gCopaleen | Letters
Letters: Karin Barry remembers Flann O’Brien’s idea for a book-handling service to make untouched volumes look well-thumbed, while Susanna Hoe offers some of her own books to those with threadbare collections
Letters
15, Apr, 2022 @5:09 PM

Homesickness by Colin Barrett review – superb stories of changing Ireland
One of the leading proponents of the short story explores how to be a man in a country on the turn
Anne Enright
10, Mar, 2022 @7:30 AM

The week in audio: The Exploding Library; Famous Firsts; Ry-Union; Bed of Lies
Flann O’Brien takes centre stage, while the latest round of celebrity ‘interviews’ are in need of a tough producer
Miranda Sawyer
27, Nov, 2021 @5:00 PM

From Kafka to Gogol via Pynchon: top 10 absurd quests in fiction
From seeking how to stop being an ass to finding out where a month has gone missing, these stories are as weird as life
Joanna Kavenna
14, Aug, 2019 @12:00 PM

Top 10 genre-twisting novels | Alan Trotter
From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing tales
Alan Trotter
13, Feb, 2019 @11:48 AM

Top 10 Irish science fiction authors
It might not be the first country you associate with the genre, but from Jonathan Swift to Flann O’Brien and beyond, the future’s always been there
Jack Fennell
19, Dec, 2018 @11:00 AM

'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight
Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …
John Boyne
12, Dec, 2017 @6:00 AM

On my radar: Brendan Gleeson’s cultural highlights
The star of Hampstead and Alone in Berlin on his Flann O’Brien obsession, the most thrilling piece of theatre he’s ever seen, and discovering Caravaggio
Interview by Kathryn Bromwich
02, Jul, 2017 @9:00 AM

My hero: Flann O’Brien by John Banville
The author of the comic masterpiece At Swim-Two-Birds would have laughed at the notion of being anybody’s hero
John Banville
01, Apr, 2016 @9:00 AM

Did the 100 best English language novels make enough room for the Irish?
Nine Irish authors made it into Robert McCrum’s selection of the best fiction of all time. But were they the right ones, and were there enough of them?
Claire Armitstead
21, Aug, 2015 @11:05 AM

The 10 best books about cycling
From Beckett to HG Wells, Jon Day saddles up for the best biking in literature
Jon Day
10, Jul, 2015 @8:37 AM

Two books about Irish journalism that tell the story of modern Ireland
An anthology of ‘hugely readable’ articles and a perceptive newspaper history
Roy Greenslade
18, Mar, 2015 @8:35 AM
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