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* ''The Dalkey Archive''
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* ''The Best Of Myles'' (a collection of the best of his column ''Cruiskeen Lawn''.)
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: In his newspaper column ''Cruiskeen Lawn'', Myles would often interject comments on the column itself from "The Plain People of Ireland", who were a rather dense bunch of people with an Irish accent who would ask him what he was going on about or criticise the writing. Myles would often take offence at this and break off the conversation.
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: In his newspaper column ''Cruiskeen Lawn'', Myles would often interject comments on the column itself from "The Plain People of Ireland", who were a rather dense bunch of people with an Irish accent who would ask him what he was going on about or criticise the writing. Myles would often take offence at this and break off the conversation.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Myles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''[[Literature/ThePoorMouth An Béal Bocht]]'' ("The Poor Mouth"), and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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Brian Ó Nualláin[=/=]Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Myles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''[[Literature/ThePoorMouth An Béal Bocht]]'' ("The Poor Mouth"), and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Myles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'' ("The Poor Mouth"), and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Myles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An ''[[Literature/ThePoorMouth An Béal Bocht'' Bocht]]'' ("The Poor Mouth"), and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: In his newspaper column ''Cruiskeen Lawn'', Myles would often interject comments on the column itself from "The Plain People of Ireland", who were a rather dense bunch of people with an Irish accent who would ask him what he was going on about or criticise the writing. Myles would often take offence at this and break off the conversation.
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* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, and Myles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''.''many''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, and Myles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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* TheAlcoholic: O'Nolan was an alcoholic for much of his life, which possible contributed to his eventual throat cancer and heart attack.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Miles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'', and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Miles '''Myles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'', Bocht'' ("The Poor Mouth"), and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, and Miles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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* BilingualBonus: O'Nolan spoke fluent Irish, Irish (English, in fact, was his ''second'' language), and passable German, French and Latin. All of which appear in his work.
* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, andMiles Myles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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He was known for his bizarre [[{{Metafiction}} metafictional]] sense of humour, and his positively ''vicious'' attitude to contemporary Ireland in ''An Cruiskeen Lawn''. Nothing was safe, neither politics nor religion nor society. He even mocked ''his own day job'', as a powerful private secretary in the Department of Health, where the fact that he was Myles na gGopaleen was an open secret.
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He was known for his bizarre [[{{Metafiction}} metafictional]] sense of humour, and his positively ''vicious'' attitude to contemporary Ireland in ''An Cruiskeen Lawn''. Nothing was safe, neither politics nor religion nor society. He even mocked ''his own day job'', as a powerful private secretary in the Department of Health, where the fact that he was Myles na gGopaleen gCopaleen was an open secret.
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Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Miles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'', and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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Brian O'Nolan was an Irish civil servant, novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, notably '''Miles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column ''An Cruiskeen Lawn'' and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'', and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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He was known for his bizarre [[{{Metafiction}} metafictional]] sense of humour, and his positively ''vicious'' attitude to contemporary Ireland in ''An Cruiskeen Lawn''. Nothing was safe, neither politics nor religion nor society. He even mocked ''his own day job'', as a powerful private secretary in the Department of Health, where the fact that he was Myles na gGopaleen was an open secret.
He was known for his bizarre [[{{Metafiction}} metafictional]] sense of humour, and his positively ''vicious'' attitude to contemporary Ireland in ''An Cruiskeen Lawn''. Nothing was safe, neither politics nor religion nor society. He even mocked ''his own day job'', as a powerful private secretary in the Department of Health, where the fact that he was Myles na gGopaleen was an open secret.
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* TheAlcoholic: O'Nolan was an alcoholic for much of his life, which possible contributed to his eventual throat cancer and heart attack.
* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, and Miles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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* TheAlcoholic: O'Nolan was an alcoholic for much of his life, which possible contributed to his eventual throat cancer and heart attack.
* PenName: O'Nolan had ''[[{{Understatement}} many]]''. Most notable is Flann O'Brien for his novels and the name under which he is usually remembered, and Miles na gCopaleen/Gopaleen, the pseudonym under which he wrote his ''Irish Times'' column. But he would also write angry letters about his own column under once-off names, and it's suspected he may have been "Stephen Blakesley", writer of some ''Sexton Blake'' detective novels, and "John Shamus O'Donnell", who contributed one story to ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' in 1932.
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Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, columnist and satirist, and one of the giants of twentieth-century Irish modernism. He was best known under his many pseudonyms, '''Miles na gCopaleen''' for his satirical newspaper column and his Irish-language novel, ''An Béal Bocht'', and most famously '''Flann O'Brien''' for his English-language novels.
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* ''Literature/TheThirdPoliceman''
* ''Literature/AtSwimTwoBirds
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* ''Literature/TheThirdPoliceman''
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