The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
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The International Flann O’Brien Society
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We love a good bash in the tunnel during Boomsday
The International Flann O’Brien Society
The key to understanding how Irish government policy is designed and implemented is to always keep in mind that the satirist and surrealist author Flann O’Brien, also had a highly successful and distinguished career in our civil service.
Five favourite books that didn’t make the Guardian 100 in no particular order:
The Third Policeman - Flann O’Brien
Pavane - Keith Roberts
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M Miller
Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (Published 1967 by MacGibbon & Kee)
Applications for a new, 2 year postdoctoral position are now open! Please share widely.
The Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, based at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, is open to Ph.D. graduates in any area of Irish studies.
Next, Gina Case reviews 'Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist' (2025) by Tobias W. Harris, which places the late modernist O’Brien into conversation with the European avant-garde movements. modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/b...
Check the chapter out if you're into Flann O'Brien & modernist apocalypses, and read the full book online if you're interested in thoughtful, engaging, urgent chapters on modernist ethics!
www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
I very much enjoyed speaking with @drchrismurray.bsky.social about Kevin Barry's novel 'The Heart in Winter' for the Irish Books Podcast. You can check out our discussion below, or wherever you choose to get your podcasts.
Excited to receive✨️proofs✨️for my chapter on exploitations of nonhuman skins in At Swim, An Béal Bocht & Two in One via book production, clothing, taxidermy
In "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", ed Anne Fogarty, Scott Hamilton, Erika Mihálycsa: out soon from @corkup.bsky.social!
"a pivotal moment in Flann O’Brien studies...a landmark in O’Brien scholarship and the broader nonhuman turn"
- Thierry Robin's Études irlandaises review of "Flann O'Brien & the Nonhuman", which I'd the pleasure of editing with Katherine Ebury & John Greaney
journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...
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29 May 2026 Gina Case, Boston College Tobias W. Harris’s first monograph, Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45: Dublin’s Dadaist (2025) begins with a perfectly absurd excerpt from a …
Listen, I’m so very very weary this evening, but I just wanted you to know that the Irish Government has introduced a Bill to justify biometric police surveillance that doesn’t follow EU Law and their idea is based it on having a definition of biometric processing different from in the AI Act.
