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Brian O'Nolan ( Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature.
- The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian...
- The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written in 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and claimed he had lost it.
- Flann O'Brien
- 1967
An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) is a 1941 novel in Irish by Flann O'Brien, published under the pseudonym "Myles na gCopaleen". It is regarded as one of the most important Irish-language novels of the twentieth century.
- Flann O'Brien
- 1941
Flann O’Brien (born Oct. 5, 1911, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ire.—died April 1, 1966, Dublin) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, and, as Myles na gCopaleen, a columnist for the Irish Times newspaper for 26 years.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Brian O'Nolan, his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature.
Flann O'Brien novels have attracted a wide following for their bizarre humour and Modernist metafiction. The café and shop of Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich ( ), at the heart of the Belfast Gaeltacht Quarter, is named ("The Fourth Policeman"), as a play-on-words of the title of O'Brien's book . ...more.
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As Flann O’Brien he wrote two of the most inventive, innovative and funniest of the 20th century novels: At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman. In those novels he created a universe as original, comic and hermetic as those of Damon Runyan, P.G. Wodehouse and Lewis Carroll.
