 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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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.
The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/15/2008; 1453 words
; ... BEN KIELY in the White Horse, Myles na Gopaleen in Nearys, Tom Kilroy in theStags ... Tom Kilroy, who was writing.Myles na Gopaleen might be in Nearys, not talking ... stupidlydrunk every single night. I saw Myles na Gopaleen urinate against the counterin ...
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Bonus Myles
The Boston Globe; 3/9/2008; Katherine A.Powers; Powers lives in Cambridge. Her column appears on alternate Sundays. She can be reached by e-mail at pow3@verizon.net.; 1013 words
; ... author's columnist's persona, Myles na gCopaleen, later na Gopaleen - also known, among other self-conferr ... columns exists in "The Best of Myles," published by the Dalkey Archive ... invited to write what became Myles na Gopaleen's famous column in The Irish ...
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THE MAN WHO WAS MYLES BEHIND
The Boston Globe; 2/22/1998; Katherine A. Powers; 940 words
; ... pen name Flann O'Brien, and best known at the time as Myles na Gopaleen. In this last guise he wrote the column "Cruiskeen Lawn ... man Patrick Kavanagh customarily referred to as "poor Myles," was first published in England in 1989 and now, at ...
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Flann O'Brien.(The Good Fairy, At Swim-Two-Birds)(Book Review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/2005; Murphy, Neil; 15260 words
; ... Brother Barnabas, Samuel Hall, Myles na Gopaleen, and Flann O'Brien. Appropriately ... which was written under the name Myles na Gopaleen. In the interests of consistency ... title An Beal Bocht by one Myles na Gopaleen ( Myles of the little horses ), the ...
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TAKING DEADLY AIM AT `PROFESSIONAL IRISHMEN'
The Boston Globe; 3/14/2004; KATHERINE A. POWERS; 973 words
; ... Flann O'Brien, also known as Myles na gCopaleen (or na Gopaleen), who was born Brian O'Nolan ... and simply bring you the news that yet another collection ... columns appeared under the name Myles na gCopaleen, a collection of ... identity. "I was pleased," Myles writes, ...
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Of gombeens, fibs and the honour of Albert Reynolds
The Independent - London; 10/20/1996; Alan Murdoch; 803 words
; IT IS proving to be a case worthy of the pen of a Myles na Gopaleen. The man who ran backwoods dance halls; the priest who was a paedophile; the murder of a postman; and a gombeen. This is the stuff ...
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EXTREMISM: STAMP IT OUT
The Boston Globe; 11/4/2001; KATHERINE A. POWERS; 1128 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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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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A bun is just a bun, but a pun is forever.(Features)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 6/26/2003; 222 words
; ... of 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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The Funniest Man in Dublin
The Washington Post; 8/11/1991; Michael Dirda; 2071 words
; ... O'Nolan - aka Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gopaleen and a dozen other pen names ... in Gaelic, under the pen-name Myles na Gopaleen, it would make O'Nolan a local ... Consider the indispensable Myles na Gopaleen book-handling service. The newly ...
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words: Naive
The Independent - London; 10/22/1995; Nicholas Bagnall; 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." - "Incredibly ...
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