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Flann O'Brien

April 2022

  • Pile of books

    Shelf-help for non-readers from Myles na gCopaleen

    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

March 2022

  • Barbara Trapido

    The books of my life
    Barbara Trapido: ‘I love all other George Eliot – but can’t forgive Daniel Deronda’

  • The village of Dugort in County Mayo.

    Book of the day
    Homesickness by Colin Barrett review – superb stories of changing Ireland

November 2021

  • Jenni Falconer at Global Radio Studios, London, UK - 12 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (12534380i) Jenni Falconer Jenni Falconer at Global Radio Studios, London, UK - 12 Oct 2021

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    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

August 2019

  • Philip Glass’s interpretation of The Trial at the Royal Opera House in 2014.

    Top 10s
    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

February 2019

  • Rufus Hound as Sancho and David Threlfall in the title role of the RSC’s production of Don Quixote.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 genre-twisting novels

    From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing tales

December 2018

  • Gulliver’s Travels, film still

    Top 10s
    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

December 2017

  • From left, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Toni Morrison, Kit de Waal, Anne Enright and Flann O’Brien.

    '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 …

July 2017

  • Brendan Gleeson.

    On my radar
    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

April 2016

  • Flann O’Brien in the 1950s

    My hero
    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

August 2015

  • Gulliver's Travels

    The 100 best novels
    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?

July 2015

  • Le Tour de France 2015 - Stage Four

    Top 10s
    The 10 best books about cycling

    From Beckett to HG Wells, Jon Day saddles up for the best biking in literature

March 2015

  • books

    Greenslade
    Two books about Irish journalism that tell the story of modern Ireland

    An anthology of ‘hugely readable’ articles and a perceptive newspaper history

December 2014

  • 100 best novels swim two

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 64 – At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939)

    Labyrinthine and multilayered, Flann O’Brien’s humorous debut is both a reflection on, and an exemplar of, the Irish novel, writes Robert McCrum

June 2014

  • Cycling - Penny farthing

    Live Better: health and wellbeing
    Why I love … cycling

    In the latest in our series about outdoor exercise, Peter Kimpton explains how bike and body can feel inextricably entwined

September 2013

  • Flann O'Brien

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien – review

    Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: Lesser known gems from an Irish comic master

August 2013

  • Author Philip Roth in New York

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best ... writers in novels – in pictures

    Last week we brought you John Niven's 10 best writers in novels. Here, we present your thoughts on who really should have made the list

April 2012

  • philip hensher

    Rereading: authors reveal their literary addictions

    Which books do these leading authors regularly reread and which novels they are desperate to unlock the secrets of?

October 2011

  • Flann O'Brien

    Flann O'Brien: lovable literary genius

    Darragh McManus
    Darragh McManus: A centenary tribute to a giant of Irish letters almost as innovative as Joyce and Beckett, and several times funnier

September 2011

  • The Irish comic writer Flann O'Brien

    My hero
    My hero: Flann O'Brien

    'Imagine: you're better than James Joyce; you end up like Miles Kington'

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