When your health is bad and your heart feels strange, And you face is pale and wan, When doctors say that you need a change, A PINT OF STOUT IS YOUR ONLY MAN. FLANN O'BRIEN, At Swim-Two-Birds

Driving home for Christmas? Pause Chris Rea and listen to the most recent episode of Radio Myles, the podcast on Flann O’Brien by Tobias Harris, featuring @PaulEamonnFagan speaking wonderfully on the nonhuman, the politics of comedy and hoaxes. radiomyles.com/8-paul-fagan-u…

🎁 Just before we hit Christmas, I'm EXCITED to gift you the full draft schedule for our "Brave New Worlds" workshop in Zürich next year! 🎁 Open to all! Infos and tickets available right here 👇 eventbrite.com/e/brave-new-wo…

Poet, critic, broadcaster and Abbey Theatre director Robert Farren died OTD in 1984. He is frequently misidentified as Flann O'Brien in this photo.

Hot take: Flann O'Brien was a better author than Myles na Gopaleen, as was Myles na gCopaleen

I cycled from Charles Dickens to Flann O’Brien and beyond for London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/dece…

Register here: eventbrite.com/e/brave-new-wo…

Thomas Dilworth considers the connections between The Third Policeman and Martin McDonagh’s film In Bruges. Out now with the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies! parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/151…

💥Deadline Extension for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥 Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway) parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/779/

📢Call for papers for the International Flann O'Brien Conference 📢 📍Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, Co. Tyrone 📅24-27 June 2023 ✍️200 word abstracts for 20 minute papers ⏳Submit by 14 February 2025

It's time to announce the keynote on 8 February in Zürich for Brave New Worlds! Dana Sawyer will present: ∞ "The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded: the Deep Relevance of Aldous Huxley's spirituality for today's world.” 🦋 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

—I want to teach people to walk the high wire...A great number of people want to walk the high wire and show off. Some of them may be merely mercenary and anxious to make an easy, quick fortune with some great circus. FLANN O'BRIEN, The Hard Life #SundaySentence(s)

🥁 Drum roll please! I'm absolutely jazzed to declare that at, Zürich for Brave New Worlds, Dr Paul Fagan will present ☄️ "Apocalyptic Time in Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley" 🤯 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

🤫 Hush now! in Zürich for Brave New Worlds on 8 February, Chiara Sciarrino will present: 🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏 #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

🤯 It's time to announce the next featured speaker in Zürich for Brave New Worlds!💥 On 7 February David Dunaway will present: 💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰  #aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents

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