iamBullivant<p>Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen died on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. 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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MylesNagCopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MylesNagCopaleen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
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iamBullivant<p>Foilsíodh 'At Swim-Two-Birds', úrscéal le Brian Ó Nualláin, den chéad uair ar 13ú lá de Mhí an Mhárta 1939.</p><p>At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AtSwimTwoBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtSwimTwoBirds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gaeilge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gaeilinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilinn</span></a></p>
Mark<p>“Aloft in the sky I could see the dim tracery of the stars struggling out here and there between the clouds. And all the time she was under me in a flawless racing onwards, touching the road with the lightest touches, surefooted, straight and faultless, each of her metal bars like spear-shafts superbly cast by angels.”<br>The man with no name rides out on the sergeant’s bicycle. <br><a href="https://waterford.international/tags/TheThirdPoliceman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheThirdPoliceman</span></a><br><a href="https://waterford.international/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a></p>
Mark<p>“As already said, however, de Selby provides some genuine mental sustenance if read objectively for what there is to read. In the Layman's Atlas[3] he deals explicitly with bereavement, old age, love, sin, death and the other saliencies of existence. It is true that he allows them only some six lines but this is due to his devastating assertion that they are all 'unnecessary’.”<br>The Third Policeman<br><a href="https://waterford.international/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a></p>
Mark<p>“'Is it life? he answered. 'I would rather be without it,' he said, for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.'”<br>The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien.<br><a href="https://waterford.international/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a></p>
Nick<p>“A divil when he has the few jars on him”, by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a>, featuring Niall Tóibín and David Kelly</p><p><a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/1110/740815-the-wonderful-worlds-of-flann-obrien/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rte.ie/archives/2015/1110/7408</span><span class="invisible">15-the-wonderful-worlds-of-flann-obrien/</span></a></p>
Mal<p>There are three <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/modernist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modernist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> whose <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/ShortStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStories</span></a> remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:</p><p>* <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SamuelClemens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamuelClemens</span></a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MarkTwain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarkTwain</span></a>.<br>* <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/MilesNaGopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilesNaGopaleen</span></a>.<br>* <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/HermanCharlesBosman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HermanCharlesBosman</span></a>.</p><p>Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/JosephConrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JosephConrad</span></a> fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.</p><p>There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.</p>
Nick<p>Flanndoodles. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a></p>
the roamer<p>"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame." </p><p>Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Mirrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mirrors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/deSelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deSelby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a></p>
Ulrich Plate<p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/vendredilecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vendredilecture</span></a> toujours en Irlande et vraiment aucune idée quel livre attaquer en premier. On a passé un fabuleux <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/bloomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloomsday</span></a> à Dublin dimanche dernier, acheté une vingtaine de livres difficiles à trouver sur le « continent », dont un essai de <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/KeithHopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeithHopper</span></a> au titre de « Flann O’Brien : Portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist » réclamant que « The Third Policeman » de <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> qui se trouvant à une bifurcation de traditions littéraires irlandaises entre « l'héritage blasé du « Celtic Twilight » de <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Yeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yeats</span></a> et les complexités problématiques du modernisme de Joyce » (d’après la présentation) créait une transition paralittéraire des deux. 1/3</p>
iamBullivant<p>Fuair Brian Ó Nualláin a scríobh faoi na hainmneacha Flann O’Brien agus Myles na gCopaleen bas ar 1 Aibreán 1966 i mBaile Átha Cliath. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/%C3%89ire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Éire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StairNah%C3%89ireann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StairNahÉireann</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gaeilge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Brian%C3%93Nuall%C3%A1in" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianÓNualláin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MylesNagCopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MylesNagCopaleen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CeartaighM%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CeartaighMé</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen died on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. 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. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MylesNagCopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MylesNagCopaleen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin), writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AtSwimTwoBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtSwimTwoBirds</span></a></p>
Felix Bernoully<p>Tom Gould expands on Myles na gCopaleen's BUCHHANDLUNG ("A Rate to Suit all Purses"):<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/feb/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-have-a-bookcase-worthy-of-all-your-social-media-feeds-cartoon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/picture/</span><span class="invisible">2024/feb/17/tom-gauld-on-how-to-have-a-bookcase-worthy-of-all-your-social-media-feeds-cartoon</span></a></p><p>I love the "spine manager".</p><p>See also: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/15/shelf-help-for-non-readers-from-myles-na-gcopaleen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2022/apr</span><span class="invisible">/15/shelf-help-for-non-readers-from-myles-na-gcopaleen</span></a></p><p>(the whole bit can be found in "The Best of Myles")</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TomGould" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomGould</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CruiskeenLawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CruiskeenLawn</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MylesnagCopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MylesnagCopaleen</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a></p>
Susan Maxwell @ BdR<p>This week's Friday blog post, featuring or tipping the hat to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AgathaChristie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgathaChristie</span></a> adaptations <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RuralLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuralLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Wormwoodiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wormwoodiana</span></a> and Gujerati Pulp Fiction <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@blaft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blaft</span></a></span> <br>Have a nice weekend, everyone! <br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/deck/@MuinbeoArchives/111863174054226599" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ie/deck/@MuinbeoArchi</span><span class="invisible">ves/111863174054226599</span></a></p>
Nick<p>Happy birthday to Brian, Flann and Myles. </p><p>“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen was born on 5th October 1911 in Strabane, County Tyrone. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. 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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MylesNagCopaleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MylesNagCopaleen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Felix Bernoully<p>Ich bin allen Ernstes letztes Jahr einmal abends wieder aus dem Bett geklettert und habe nachgeschaut, ob die Rewe Bio Finn-Toasties als "nordische" oder "nordirische" Spezialität beworben werden.</p><p>Es ist "nordisch" und "Finn" meint wahrscheinlich Finnland, ich muss aber immer auch an Finn MacCool denken, den "legendary hero of old Ireland", den Flann O'Brien in "At Swim-Two-Birds" so schön auf die Schippe nahm.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FinnMacCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinnMacCool</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FionnMacCumhaill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FionnMacCumhaill</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Toasties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toasties</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_ma</span><span class="invisible">c_Cumhaill</span></a></p>
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iamBullivant<p>At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BrianONolan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianONolan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AtSwimTwoBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtSwimTwoBirds</span></a></p>
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