Myles na Gopaleen
Myles na Gopaleen see O'Brien, Flann .
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NUALA OFAOLAIN ARE YOU SOMEBODY? (1) Postcards: Nuala met John McGahern in pubs on Malahide Road or Fairview (2) Mary Lavin: Shed be found at Buswells (3) The pub loner: Myles na Gopalee (4) Wedding meal: The worst kind of end for Patrick Kavanagh was fended off by Katherine Moloney (5) Alcohol: Nuala saw Myles na Gopaleen disgrace himself at the bar in Neary's.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/15/2008; 700+ words
; ...being cold, being sick' BEN KIELY in the White Horse, Myles na Gopaleen in Nearys, Tom Kilroy in theStags Head...and Paddy...talking about writing with Tom Kilroy, who was writing.Myles na Gopaleen might be in Nearys, not talking to anyone (I spent...
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Genius under many guises
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Nolan (his baptismal name), Myles na Gopaleen (the newspaper columnist) and...Knowall. He became most famous as Myles na Gopaleen, for a quarter of a century...became increasingly acidulous. Myles was a misanthropic alcoholic...
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TAKING DEADLY AIM AT `PROFESSIONAL IRISHMEN'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/14/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...more completely than usual to Flann O'Brien, also known as Myles na gCopaleen (or na Gopaleen), who was born Brian O'Nolan in 1911 and died in 1966. Just...Times from 1940 to 1945, the columns appeared under the name Myles na gCopaleen, a collection of personas that was quite ...
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No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Brien, Brian O'Nolan and Myles na Gopaleen. Can any other writer--or...the course of a lifetime? Myles (one instinctively wants...New York and Dublin, when Myles and the poet Patrick Kavanagh...column under the Irish name Myles na Gopaleen, who was the ...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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A bun is just a bun, but a pun is forever.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 6/26/2003; 222 words
; ...a certain age may remember the splendidly convoluted tales from the Cruiskeen Lawn column in The Irish Times of Myles Na Gopaleen, alias Flann O'Brien, alias Brian Nolan, which involved the writers Keats and Chapman and were written for no other...
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words: Naive
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/22/1995; ; 289 words
; ...naivety that defies belief" he was only elaborating on a familiar old clunk-click of a cliche. I was reminded of Myles na Gopaleen's catechism. "Just how naive would you say the prison governor was?" - "Er, extremely naive?" - "Try again...
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Flann O'Brien.(The Good Fairy, At Swim-Two-Birds)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Nolan, Brian Hackett, Brother Barnabas, Samuel Hall, Myles na Gopaleen, and Flann O'Brien. Appropriately enough, for an...the Hard Life), which was written under the name Myles na Gopaleen. In the interests of consistency and clarity, I will...
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EXTREMISM: STAMP IT OUT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/4/2001; ; 700+ words
; `WHATPROMPTS A SANE, INOFFENSIVE MAN TO WRITE?" ASKED BRIAN O'NOLAN UNDER HIS PEN NAME, MYLES NA GOPALEEN. "WHAT VAST, YEASTY ERUCTATION OF EGOISM DRIVES A MAN TO ADDRESS SIMULTANEOUSLY A MASS OF PEOPLE HE HAS NEVER MET AND WHO MAY RESENT...
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Alan Taylor's Diary
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 2/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...your zip bursts. Mr O'Brien's real name was Brian O'Nolan and he wrote an evergreen column in the Irish Times as Myles na Gopaleen. Mr Campbell would do civilisation a great favour if he would consider publishing the best of these columns in Everyman...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Dub genius; ARTS LIVES - FLANN O'BRIEN: THE LIVES OF BRIAN RTE One, Tuesday 10.15pm Must see..(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 4/2/2006; 254 words
; ...40th anniversary of his death. In the 1930s Flann took on the identity Myles na gCopaleen and tore into pompous politicians in newly independent Ireland...enjoyed it - but he wouldn't have let on. CAPTION(S): Tom Hickey plays Myles na gCopaleen
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O'Brien, Flann
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Tyrone, and educated at University College, Dublin. He contributed a satiric weekly column under the name ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ to the Irish Times . His first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), is an exuberant work, operating on several...
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Flann O'Brien
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1940 until his death, he wrote a political column called Cruiskeen Lawn for The Irish Times, under the pseudonym of Myles na Gopaleen; his biting, satiric commentaries made him the conscience of the Irish government. Under this name, he also wrote...
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