O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. 2/2

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Flann O’Brien

Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen was born on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. 1/2

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"A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird."

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It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. 2/2

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The second episode in our Profiles series. Each episode will give a brief overview of a writer and their work to date. In this episode, we look at the Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, a.k.a. Flann O'Brien, a.k.a. Myles na gCopaleen.

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A detail of a microfilm copy of Myles na gCopaleen’s column „Cruiskeen Lawn“ from the Irish Times, 10 December 1941. The relevant part reads: Information Please Is this † a dagger which I see before me? (These are known as brackets or parantheses.) These—(gas)—are gas brackets. † It is.

It is 10 December, so here’s my all-time favourite footnote again. Published #OTD in 1941.

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