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The first editon of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds for sale by Ulysses Rare Books was owned by EDMUND CRISPIN. I have never coveted a book more. I should have known the man who created a detective called Gervase Fen read Flann. The International Flann O’Brien Society

It’s hard to know how to process Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard’s death, but Selina Tusitala Marsh’s raw, aching poem 'Poem for a Murdered Beloved Friend Murdered by a Friend’ gives voice to the hurt and confusion: nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/07/03/poe…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 "Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan & Aldous Huxley" 7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote Speakers: Maebh Long & Dana Sawyer Featured Speakers: Fagan, Dunaway, Poller, Harris Abstracts Deadline: 1 October 2024 Details: parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/744/

Vale Edna O’Brien. ‘Faber, said she was “one of the greatest writers of our age”. “She revolutionised Irish literature, capturing the lives of women and the complexities of the human condition in prose that was luminous and spare’ theguardian.com/books/article/…

And Éibhear Walsh too? I’m so sad to hear of this.

It was a long labour of love but it’s finally here. Use CUP20SM to get 20% off The Rise of Pacific Literature when you order from Columbia University Press. Buy a copy for your neighbour and your gran!

I'm honoured to be continuing the wonderful work by Sonja Tiernan and Peter Kuch, and privileged to be collaborating with Liam McIlvanney at CISS Otago. I look forward to serving the Irish community from University of Otago otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/…

🔥 New publication alert!🔥 "Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines”, edited by Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan and John Greaney is being launched The James Joyce Centre on 5 October. Register for your free tickets here: eventbrite.ie/e/finnegans-wa…

The mistaken identity that just won’t die!

👉🏻Job alert!👈🏻Te Kura Toi School of Arts at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato University of Waikato is seeking two full-time Lecturers in English: One in Literature in English pre-1900 and one post-1900. elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

New special issue of Affirmations of the Modern, ed Sean Pryor! 'Countermapping Modernism’ is guest-ed by Erin Carlston, Jacob Edmond and myself. Essays by @kirbybrown, Dr Cai Lyons (they/them), Bonnie Etherington, and Paul K. Saint-Amour focus on Indigenous modernisms. affirmationsmodern.com/index.php/up-j…

Looking forward to talking to modernists at MSA (Modernism) in Chicago about "The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism” out with Columbia University Press!

The urgent question of "What happened to new episodes of the Radio Myles podcast??" is not one that anyone is asking Nevertheless, the explanation is that I have been working on finishing this, my first monograph! bloomsbury.com/uk/flann-obrie…

Roddy Doyle: I read Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds when I was 16. [...] It was an extraordinary experience, seeing what I heard every day on the page, and laughing at it because it was so funny and great. theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

Get your abstracts in for "An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins”, The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference. This year we’re returning to Flann’s birthplace in Strabane 24-27th June 2025. parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/759/

Christmas treat!

Start your new year by reading Thierry Robin’s new article on death, the uncanny valley and Flann O’Brien. Out now and open access on The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/170…

Such an insightful review of Radio Myles by Zan Cammack

💥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/