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The International Flann O’Brien Society Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan Profile pic by David O'Kane

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Jun 29

We are delighted to announce the winners of the ✨2025 Flann O'Brien Society Awards!✨ Congratulations to Brian Ó Conchubhair for Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O’Brien: An Saol Bocht and to Joseph LaBine, ‘“Information, Please”: Brian O’Nolan and the Radio’. Two excellent, important works!

Winners of 2025 Flann O'Brien Awards Announced!

Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or e...

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David Scourfield @jhdscourfield.bsky.social · 6d

Honestly, we need Flann O'Brien back among us.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 5d

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

- Flann O’Brien, At swim- Two- Birds
born on this day, 1911

#BookSky
#FlannO’Brien

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 4d

IS IT ABOUT A BICYCLE?
Happy birthday Flann O’Brien, born this day 1911, literary hero and comic genius. "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness." ('The Third Policeman')

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 4d

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

With John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh & Tom Joyce (Bloomsday, Sandymount, 1954)

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 4d

Andromeda Remembers Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin;, whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature, on his birthday.
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 3d

✨On this day in history -- October 5, 1911 , Brian O'Nolan AKA Flann O'Brien was born in Strabane, Tyrone✨🍀💚🇮🇪

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 1d

reading about how flann o’brien wrote so many letters to the irish times under different pseudonyms who he’d get to argue with eachother across the letters page that some real letter writers were later assumed to be his inventions

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 16h

Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe.

He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 4d

Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions

This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 6d

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 6d

Manchán 🕯️

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 7d

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)

Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...

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Will Pass @willpassbooks.com · 8d

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1967)
Cover painting 'The Bus by the River' by Jack B. Yeats

#penguinpaperbacks #booksky #coverdesign

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 7d

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 9d

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9d

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 10d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1) Cliches
2)The Plain People of Ireland
3) Everything else

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(I'd like a blackboard though)

1) Space archaeology
2) Cultural heritage management
3) Stone tools
🧪 🏺

Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(What people actually mean is giving a professional lecture about it. Just saying)

1) Chemistry & Physics of Whisky
2) Infectious diseases
3) origin of life / chemical evolution

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 13d

I'm so pleased to see the Einat Adar's review of my book, 'Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics', appear in the esteemed Litteraria Pragensia!

The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 10d

New in @theparishreview.bsky.social > “Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction" by Zan Cammack: doi.org/10.16995/pr....

Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction

This article argues that Brian O’Nolan’s fiction consistently stages sound as a material force, one that becomes most tangible at the moment of its mediation. Drawing on theories of sonic materiality ...

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 13d

This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Dross, Nick Cave, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett, Rapture Captcha, Moose Allain, Ian Dury and Robert Fergusson with David Bowie. Subscribe if you like, I don't care. mailchi.mp/85e4e4daefd5...

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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted that my short story ‘Plain Speaking’ written to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brian O’Nolan aka Flann O’Brien is now collected in a new textbook for grammar school students in Germany: ‘Great Britain in Nine Short Stories’ from @cornelsenverlag.bsky.social See: bit.ly/4nKSKq6

A typical British high street shot from a low angle - blurred figures with shopping bags cross the road beneath Union Jack bunting

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Thomas @stateofchassis.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t know about specific books, but I feel like I never stop recommending Clive Barker, Angela Carter, and Flann O’Brien

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 12d

Name a Book you never stop recommending.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, under 300 copies were sold before the bombing. They (or the same few!) crop up in sales relatively regularly.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 11d

First edition of At Swim-Two-Birds up for auction at Fonsie Mealy's. A steal at 3000 euro!

Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece O’Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo., L. (Longmans, Green and Co.)

Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece O’Brien (Flann) At Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo., L. (Longmans, Green... in Rare Books, Manuscripts & Collectors (1 Oct 2025)

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · Sep 8

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care

31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…

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