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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Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Niall Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to i...

During the 1950s and 1960s influenza was a recurring theme in the Cruiskeen Lawn, a satirical column by Myles na Copaleen (Flann O’Brien) in The Irish Times. The columns’ engagement arose from Irel...

This article proposes Irish radio broadcasting as an unexplored context for new directions in Flann O’Brien studies. Brian O’Nolan’s involvement in Irish radio spans at least two decades, from the ear...

This article explores how the meteorological, societal, social, and literary senses of atmosphere fertilise each other in Brian O’Nolan’s writing through the theoretical frameworks and analytical tool...

This note details ‘Cultural Affairs,’ a newly discovered article that Brian O’Nolan contributed, under the pen name Myles na Gopaleen, to a 1953 special supplement of The Statist magazine dedicated to ‘The Economy of Ireland.’ In its primary aim of advertising Irish industry to English investors, ‘The Economy of Ireland’ reflects the shift in post-war Irish economic policy away from the protectionist Free State era and towards the increasingly open economy of the 1950s and 60s. Myles’s contribution addresses the supplement’s theme by arguing for a form of cultural liberalism that rejects isolationism and bad-faith nationalism by opening Irish culture to foreign influence, rather than packaging it for export to foreign markets. However, ‘Cultural Affairs’ also departs from the economic supplement’s focus on courting foreign investment by advocating for meaningful government subsidies for Irish cultural regeneration. 

This note details ‘Cultural Affairs,’ a newly discovered article that Brian O’Nolan contributed, under the pen name Myles na Gopaleen, to a 1953 special supplement of The Statist magazine dedicated to...

Reading ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ as a parody of the Biblical Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, this article presents a previously unrecognised intertextual source to which the title of Br...

This note details ‘Cultural Affairs,’ a newly discovered article that Brian O’Nolan contributed, under the pen name Myles na Gopaleen, to a 1953 special supplement of The Statist magazine dedicated to...

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from inte…

An Saol Bocht: Leabhar tábhachtach ar shaothar Bhriain Uí Nualláin, a thugann faoina bhfuil scríofa faoi a scrúdú as an nua, agus a chuireann leis sin eolas úr atá tagtha chun solais ó shin.

Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · Episode

This article explores Brian O’Nolan’s (Flann O’Brien’s, Myles na gCopaleen’s) relation to John Millington Synge. Synge (1871–1909) was the premier dramatist of the Irish Revival, and O’Nolan’s respons...