Trivia / At Swim-Two-Birds

• Development Hell: Brendan Gleeson has been trying to get a film adaption off the ground since 2011.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The reason there is a major character called "Trellis" is that O'Brien wrote the book in the back garden of the family home, on a table that had been made out of pieces of trellis.
  • The reason why the student's uncle goes from being annoying and mistrustful to a proud fatherly figure is that O'Brien's own father died while he was writing the book, giving him a serious case of Thicker Than Water.