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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 5d

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 5d

Manchán 🕯️

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

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

www.theguardian.com

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

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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...

parishreview.openlibhums.org

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 12d

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...

litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 9d

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 ...

doi.org

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 10d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

Name a Book you never stop recommending.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 9d

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)

www.fonsiemealy.ie

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 29d

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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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 13d

The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

The Cover for 9.1 Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies features a cartoon by Micheal O Nuallain. It shows a man under a tree about to smash a radio with an axe.

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 15d

It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!

Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 15d

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"

Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 15d

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"

Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 16d

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

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 ...

parishreview.openlibhums.org

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26d

‘A cyclist is merged with their bike and goes into the office next week as if that’s completely normal.‘

Someone’s been reading Flann O’Brien.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 26d

Things that would happen in that book:

A cyclist is merged with their bike and goes into the office next week as if that’s completely normal.

Cheese argues with an AI.

Cheese argues that AI is hype nonsense.

A staph infection runs for office.

Geese turn out to be aliens.

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stolen doorknobs @stolendoorknobs.bsky.social · 24d

"De Selby (Part 1)" by Hozier, 2023

Long ago, a high school English teacher recommended a book, "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien. I devoured it and met this character de Selby in footnotes. (But I've still got a forgotten bookmark in "At Swim-Two-Birds"...)

🎧 #musicsky #indierock #folk

Hozier - De Selby (Part 1) (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Hozier

www.youtube.com

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

He’s a man of many talents!

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

✨Mark your calendars✨ If you are in Dublin 24 September be sure attend the launch of long-time Flaneur and Irish Times columnist Frank McNally's 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. Top shelf pun, @frankie49.bsky.social!

The book launch invitation contains an image of Frank McNally's book, which is called 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. The launch is at 6.30pm on Wednesday 24 September in Books Upstairs on D'Olier Street, D2. RSVP to vhaberland@gill.ie

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