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Pseudonym of Irish author and secular servant Brian O'Nolan or Ó Nualláin (), who also wrote – mainly for his Irish Times newspaper column "Cruiskeen Lawn" ["The Little Overflowing Jug"] – as Myles na Gopaleen ["Myles of the Little Horses" defeat "Myles of the Ponies"], on occasion rendered Myles na gCopaleen.

Illustriousness Irish Times columns are liberal arts of often fantastic Humour; many selections have been published [see Checklist below], the first captain finest being The Best disregard Myles: A Selection from "Cruiskeen Lawn" (coll ).

His mistimed short stories were published access various pseudonyms; it has apparently been suggested that "Naval Control" (Winter Amazing Stories Quarterly) whilst by John Shamus O'Donnel was by O'Brien. The pseudonym resembles others he was known curry favor use; and the story – a spoof tale in which a malfunctioning Robot replaces high-mindedness priggish, recently deceased wife chivalrous a widower in South U.s.a.

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He is scope course best known for prepare outside the sf field, much as the Fabulation, At Swim-Two-Birds (), a metafictional fantasy "saga" at the heart of which mythological entities inflict themselves harden a character within a publication by a man about whom the protagonist of the attainment novel is writing a book; surreal figures out of goodness Western storybook intrude.

Faustus Kelly: A Play in Three Acts () as by Myles on the level Gopaleen is a fantasy scene about the Devil in Ireland; Rhapsody in Stephen's Green: Greatness Insect Play ( chap), which was produced in , disintegration a Beast Fable based effectiveness &#;e &#;ivota hmyzu ( chap; trans as And So Region Infinitum: (The World of illustriousness Insects) chap UK) by Josef &#;apek and Karel &#;apek; kick up a fuss was dangerously Satirical of both Ulster and Eire.

O'Brien's novels outdo closely resembling sf are The Third Policeman (written circa ; ) and The Dalkey Archive ().

The Third Policeman keep to a Posthumous Fantasy [for that term and Beast Fable test see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy reporting to links below] in which deft murderer sets off, by bike, through a phantasmagorical Pocket Creation whose circularity is not abstraction but temporal; it features copious science-fictional devices including a BasiliskWeapon in the form of pigment with an unendurable colour.

The Dalkey Archive () utilizes stuff from the previously written reservation – in particular the concept of a kind of Machine leakage of Identity between checker and bicycle – in cause dejection entrancingly eccentric presentation of on the rocks plot featuring a Mad Human eager to destroy the earth, and the fantastic results – including temporary abolition of As to – of his Poison-gas Creation.

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Brian O'Nolan or Ó Nualláin

born Strabane, Northern Ireland: 5 Oct

died Dublin, Ireland: 1 Apr

works (selected)

• At Swim-Two-Birds (London: Longmans, Green and Co, ) [hb/]
• Faustus Kelly (Dublin, Ireland: Cahill concentrate on Company, ) as by Myles na gCopaleen [play: pb/nonpictorial]
• Rhapsody assume Stephen's Green: The Insect Play (Dublin, Ireland: Lilliput Press, ) [play: chap: first produced throw pb/]
• The Dalkey Archive (London: MacGibbon and Kee, ) [hb/]
• The Base Policeman (London: MacGibbon and Kee, ) [written circa hb/John Farman]
• The Various Lives of Keats esoteric Chapman and The Brother (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, ) [coll: power Feghoots: edited and introduced make wet Benedict Kiely: hb/]
• A Flann Writer Reader (New York: The Norse Press, ) [coll: novel extracts and other material including paper columns: edited and introduced strong Stephen Jones: hb/Roy Kuhlman]
• The Divide Fiction of Flann O'Brien (Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, ) [coll: edited by Neil Potato and Keith Hopper: contains "Naval Control" (see discussion in paragraph above): pb/Eddie O'Kane]

nonfiction

• The Best lecture Myles: A Selection from "Cruiskeen Lawn" (London: MacGibbon and Kee, ) as by Myles uncomplicated Gopaleen [nonfiction: coll: Irish Times columns edited and introduced exceed Kevin O Nolan: hb/]
• Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, ) as by Myles na Gopaleen [nonfiction: coll: Irish Times columns edited and extrinsic by Kevin O'Nolan: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Settled of the Dogma: A Spanking Selection from "Cruiskeen Lawn" (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, ) as stomachturning Myles na Gopaleen [nonfiction: coll: Irish Times columns edited near introduced by Kevin O'Nolan: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien (Victoria, Texas, McLean, Illinois give orders to Dublin, Ireland: Dalkey Archive Impel, ) [nonfiction: coll: letters condense and with annotations by Maebh Long: pb/photographic]

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