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Flann O'Brien (1911–1966)

Author of The Third Policeman

Includes the names: Flann O'Bien, Flan O'Brien, Fann O'Brien, o'brien flamm, Flann O'Brein, Flann O'Brien, Flann O' Brien, Flann J. O'Brien, Myles Na Gopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen ... (see complete list), Flann O'Brien, Na gCopaleen Myles, Myles Na Gcopaleen, Флан О'Брайън, Brian (1911-1966) O'Nolan, Флэнн О'Брайен, Flann O'Brien (na Gopaleen), By (author) Flann O'Brien, Gopaleen Myles NA. (Flann O'Brien, myles na gopaleen (flann o'brien), Flann - Myles na Gopaleen O'Brien, Myles; O'Brien na gCopaleen, Flann, Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan), Flann O'Brien (Brian O' Nolan), Richard [intro] Flann; Fortey O'Brien, Майлз на Гапалинь (Бриан О'Н, Myles (aka Flann O'Brien or Brian O'Nolan: Brian , Flann ; Rivero Taravillo O'Brien, Antonio, (prol.), pseud. O"BRIEN (F) n), pseud. [O"NOLAN (B)]. GOPALEEN (M.

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Writer Brian O'Nolan was born on October 5, 1911. He graduated from University College, Dublin. This gifted Irish writer had three identities: Brian O'Nolan, an Irish civil servant and administrator; Myles Copaleen, columnist for the Irish Times, poet and author of An Beal Bocht (The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life, 1941), a satire in Gaelic on the Gaelic revival; and Flann O'Brien, playwright and avant-garde comic novelist. His masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), went almost unrecognized in its time. This novel, which plays havoc with the conventional novel form, is about a man writing a book about characters in turn writing about him. O'Brien starts off with three separate openings. The Third Policeman (1967), funny but grim, plunges into the world of the dead, though one is not immediately aware that the protagonist is no longer living. He died on April 1, 1966. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Third Policeman… (more)
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Works by Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman 4,071 copies, 119 reviews
At Swim-Two-Birds (Author) 3,127 copies, 63 reviews
The Poor Mouth 929 copies, 15 reviews
The Dalkey Archive 818 copies, 10 reviews
The best of Myles 722 copies, 7 reviews
The Hard Life (Author) 536 copies, 5 reviews
The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library) 384 copies, 3 reviews
Further Cuttings: From Cruiskeen Lawn 145 copies, 1 review
The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother 142 copies, 6 reviews
Stories and Plays 115 copies, 1 review
At War (Lannan Selection) 107 copies, 1 review
Myles Away from Dublin 69 copies
The Hair of the Dogma (Paladin Books) 69 copies
Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien (Irish Literature) 69 copies, 2 reviews
Myles Before Myles 61 copies
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Also by Flann O'Brien
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (Contributor) 478 copies, 8 reviews
The Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 283 copies, 2 reviews
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of… (Contributor) 210 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (Contributor) 144 copies
Great Irish Detective Stories (Contributor) 86 copies
Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists (Contributor) 50 copies
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (Author, some editions; Author, some editions) 24 copies, 1 review
Great Irish Writing: The Best from the Bell (Classic Irish Fiction) (Contributor) 20 copies
The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts (Contributor) 11 copies
Antaeus No. 21/22, Spring/Summer 1976 - Special Essay Issue (Contributor) 3 copies
The Brother [VHS] (Based on work) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Legal name
Nualláin, Brian Ó
Other names
Gopaleen, Myles na (pseudonym)
Brother Barnabas
O'Nolan, Brian
Blakesley, Stephen (pseudonym)
Knowall, George
Date of birth
1911-10-05
Date of death
1966-04-01
Burial location
Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Gender
male
Nationality
Ireland
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Birthplace
Strabane, Northern Ireland
Place of death
Dublin, Ireland
Cause of death
Places of residence
Dublin, Ireland
Education
Blackrock College
University College Dublin
Occupations
civil servant
dramatist
novelist
Relationships
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Organizations
Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)
Awards and honors
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

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