Flann O'Brien, Author Dalkey Archive Press $9.95 (179p) ISBN 978-1-56478-042-3
O'Brien's 1961 novel is a sober but satirical tale about two Irish orphans growing up at the turn of the century amid the squalor of working-class Dublin. (Mar.)
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Edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Dalkey Archive, $14.50 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-56478-889-4
Irish late modernist writer O'Brien (The Third Policeman, At Swim Two Birds, The Poor Mouth) wrote in Gaelic under the name Brian Ó Nualláin, and in English as Brother Barnabus, Myles na gCopaleen, Lir O'Connor, and Brian Nolan, among others. This...
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Flann O'Brien, Author, Jim Norton, Read by , read by Jim Norton. Naxos Audiobooks $41.98 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-455-2
If ever a book was brought to life by a reading, it is this presentation of O’Brien’s posthumously published classic. Norton individually crafts voices and personalities for each character in such a way that a listener might imagine an...
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Flann O'Brien, Author, John Wyse Jackson, Editor , edited with an intro. by John Wyse Jackson. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (191p) ISBN 978-1-56478-328-8
Civil servant and satirist Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966), aka Flann O'Brien (for his comic novels) or Myles na gCopaleen (for his humorous, highly opinionated newspaper column), is resurrected in this collection of his "Cruiskeen Lawn&#
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