From 1940 to 1966 under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O’Brien wrote a daily column in the Irish Times which satirized the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life.
‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ became the most feared, respected and uproarious newspaper column in Ireland and this hilarious selection captures O’Brien’s sharp comic observational style.
Bore-Hunting in Dublin
Most fiction writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries know the form and understand that they will meet the same fate: good reviews for a first novel, a larger advance for the...
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