The O’Brien archive

Flann O’Brien is the pseudonym Brian O’Nolan used as a novelist, but this collection also contains works written as Brian Ó Nualláin (for pieces in Irish), Brother Barnabas, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen, Lir O’Connor, and Brian O’Nolan.

This collection is of previously unavailable material, of interest to all admirers of this great writer.

The centenary of the birth of O’Brien (1911-1966) was marked by an academic conference in Vienna, and the coining of the word “Flanneur” for his admirers, a word play on flâneur. (join the Flann Association at www.univie.ac.at/flannobrien2011/IFOBS.html) . A second conference was held, in Rome this year, while his 101st birthday, on Oct 5, 2012, was celebrated with a Flann O’Brien Google cartoon.