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Myles Before Myles
Myles Away from Dublin
Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien
Myles Before Myles is a wonderful selection of writings from the pen of Brian O’Nolan. In this fun-filled extravaganza he is, above all, an entertainer, a ‘gas man’. Like much of O’Nolan’s most characteristically exuberant work, the pieces in this collection did not originally appear in book form, but in periodicals and newspapers that are now almost impossible to find, such as UCD’s Blather magazine from the 1930s. Myles Before Myles reveals that some of his wittiest and most unusual writings were published years before Myles na gCopaleen (or Flann O’Brien) had even been born, and were destined to lie in almost complete obscurity for many decades.
Flann O’Brien adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column ‘Bones of Contention’ for The Nationalist & Leinster Times between 1960 and 1966, he took on the character of the quizzical and enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable public house in Carlow: erudite, urbane and informative, he is the country cousin of the Myles of Dublin, another facet of this complex, delightful Dublin writer.
Selected and introduced by Martin Green
Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan, Myles na gCopaleen, George Knowall, Donnie Brooke) is a cult hero – new readers will discover that he is one of the funniest writers in any language, at any time.
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€12.99 pb 232 pages 978-1-84351-264-6
Selected and introduced by John Wyse Jackson
Flann O’Brien, born in 1911 in Co. Tyrone, died in Dublin on 1 April 1966. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds, The Dalkey Archive, The Hard Life, The Third Policeman and The Poor Mouth. His Pythonesque journalistic satire and commentary is now recognized as his greatest literary legacy.
€12.99 pb 232 pages 978-1-84351-265-3