Flann O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Flann O'Brien has written at least 15 books. Their most popular book is The third policeman with 112 saves with an average rating of 3.5⭐.

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Author Bio

Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien. He also wrote the novel An Béal Bocht as well as many satirical columns in the Irish Times under the name Myles na gCopaleen. He was born in Strabane, County Tyrone.

Most of O'Nolan's writings were occasional pieces published in periodicals, which explains why his work has only recently come to enjoy the considered attention of literary scholars. O'Nolan was also notorious for his prolific use and creation of pseudonyms for much of his writing, including short stories, essays, and letters to editors, which has rendered a complete cataloging of his writings an almost impossible task—he allegedly would write letters to the Editor of the Irish Times complaining about his own articles published in that newspaper, for example in his regular Cruiskeen Lawn column, which gave rise to rampant speculation as to whether the author of a published letter existed or not. Not surprisingly, little of O'Nolan's pseudonymous activity has been verified.

A key feature of O'Nolan's personal situation was his status as an Irish government civil servant, who, as a result of his father's relatively early death, was obliged to support ten siblings, including an older brother who was an unsuccessful writer. Given the desperate poverty of Ireland in the 1930s to 1960s, a job as a civil servant was considered prestigious, being both secure and pensionable with a reliable cash income in a largely agrarian economy.

The Irish civil service has been, since the Irish Civil War, fairly strictly apolitical: Civil Service Regulations and the service’s internal culture generally prohibit Civil Servants above the level of clerical officer from publicly expressing political views. As a practical matter, this meant that writing in newspapers on current events was, during O'Nolan's career, generally prohibited without departmental permission on an article-by-article, publication-by-publication basis. This fact alone contributed to O'Nolan's use of pseudonyms, though he had started to create character-authors even in his pre-civil service writings.

In reality, that O'Nolan was Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen was an open secret, largely disregarded by his colleagues, who found his writing very entertaining; this was a function of the makeup of the civil service, which recruited leading graduates by competitive examination—it was an erudite and relatively liberal body in the Ireland of the 1930s to 1970s. Nonetheless, had O'Nolan forced the issue, by using one of his known pseudonyms or his own name for an article that seriously upset politicians, consequences would likely have followed—hence the acute pseudonym problem in attributing his work today.

Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Nolan

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The third policeman

The third policeman
ByFlann O'Brien

1967 • 112 Readers • 24 pages 3.5

At Swim Two Birds

At Swim Two Birds
ByFlann O'Brien

1939 • 39 Readers • 316 pages 3.9

At Swim-Two-Birds

At Swim-Two-Birds
ByFlann O'Brien

1939 • 13 Readers • 216 pages 2.7

An Béal Bocht

An Béal Bocht
ByFlann O'Brien,Patrick C. Power(Translator)

1941 • 6 Readers • 128 pages 3.3

The Dalkey Archive

The Dalkey Archive
ByFlann O'Brien

1964 • 6 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

The Complete Novels

The Complete Novels
ByFlann O'Brien

2007 • 3 Readers • 824 pages 5

Best of Myles

Best of Myles
ByFlann O'Brien

1968 • 3 Readers • 400 pages 4

Il terzo poliziotto

Il terzo poliziotto
ByFlann O'Brien,Bruno Fonzi(Translator)

1967 • 1 Reader • 248 pages

The Hard Life

The Hard Life
ByFlann O'Brien

1961 • 1 Reader • 126 pages 4

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The Poor Mouth
ByFlann O'Brien

1941 • 1 Reader • 128 pages 4

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Der dritte Polizist
ByFlann O'Brien

1967 • 1 Reader 4

Das Barmen

Das Barmen
ByFlann O'Brien

1941 • 1 Reader • 143 pages

Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn

Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn
ByFlann O'Brien,Kevin O'Nolan

1976 • 1 Reader • 189 pages 4

Una pinta d'inchiostro irlandese

Una pinta d'inchiostro irlandese
ByFlann O'Brien,Juan Rodolfo Wilcock(Translator)

1939 • 1 Reader • 292 pages

El tercer policía

El tercer policía
ByFlann O'Brien,Héctor Arnau Salvador(translator)

1967 • 301 pages