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Flann O'Brien: Life and Works

This page contains a short biography of Flann O’Brien taken from The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, ed. Robert Welch (1996), together with short entries on his major fiction - novels and stories - from the same source.



Life

Flann O’Brien [pen-name of Brian O’Nolan, or Brian Ó Nualláin in Irish; also wrote newspaper columns as Myles na gCopaleen] (1911-1966) was born in Strabane, Co.

Tyrone, the son of a Customs Officer who was appointed Commissioner and moved to Dublin in 1923. Having always spoken Irish at home and learned his English from books, he received his first formal education with the Christian Brothers in Synge Street (for him an unpleasant experience described in The Hard Life and elsewhere), before proceeding via the Holy Ghost Fathers at Blackrock College, 1927-29, to UCD.

There he became a talented contributor to the Literary and Historical Debating Society, while his gift

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