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Brian O'Nolan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Myles na gCopaleen, Brother Barnabas, George Knowall, Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O'Brien
Irish writer (1911-1966)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Other Myles/Myles Na Gaeilge
- The Poor Mouth
- At swim-two-birds
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1911
- Active to
- 1966
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,942x
- A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
· 1991 · cited 26,521x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,399x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,973x
- Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
· 1977 · cited 18,334x
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Quotes
- “"I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind."”
- “Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.”
- “One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”
- “"Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder."”
- “"After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?"”
- “"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable."”
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Key facts
- Born
- Brian O'Nolan , ( 1911-10-05 ) 5 October 1911, Strabane , County Tyrone, Ireland
- Died
- 1 April 1966 (1966-04-01) (aged 54), Dublin , Ireland
- Resting place
- Dean's Grange Cemetery
- Pen name
- Flann O'Brien Myles na Gopaleen Brother Barnabas George Knowall
- Occupation
- Civil servant, writer
- Alma mater
- University College Dublin
- Genre
- Metafiction , satire
- Notable works
- At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) An Béal Bocht (1941) The Hard Life (1961) The Dalkey Archive (1964) The Third Policeman (1967) "Cruiskeen Lawn" column
- Spouse
- Evelyn McDonnell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), whose pen names included Flann O'Brien, was an Irish Civil Service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His four English-language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967), were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht (1941), were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless sceptical of the "cult" of Joyce, saying "I declare to God if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brian O'Nolan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.