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WORKS BY FLANN O’BRIEN:
O’Brien, Flann. At Swim-Two-Birds. 1939; London: Penguin 1980; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1998.
—. At War. Ed. John Wyse Jackson. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2003.—. An Beal Bocht. 1941. Trans. Patrick C. Power. The Poor Mouth. 1973; London: Grafton 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1996.
—. The Dalkey Archive. 1964; London: Picador 1976; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1993.
—. The Hard Life. 1961; London: Grafton 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1994.
—. Rhapsody in Stephen’s Green: The Insect Play. Ed. Robert Tracy. Dublin: Lilliput Press 1994.
—. Stories and Plays. Ed. Claud Cockburn. 1973; London: Grafton 1986.
—. The Third Policeman. 1967; London: Grafton 1986; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1999.
na gCopaleen, Myles. Flann O’Brien at War. Ed. John Wyse Jackson. London: Duckworth 1999.
na Gopaleen, Myles. The Best of Myles. 1968. Ed. Kevin O’Nolan. London: Grafton 1989; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 1999.
—. ‘Cruiskeen Lawn.’ Irish Times. 4 October 1940-1 April 1966.
—. Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn. Ed. Kevin O’Nolan. London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1976; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000.
—. The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from ‘Cruiskeen Lawn.’ 1977. Ed. Kevin O’Nolan. London: Grafton 1987.
—. Miles Away From Dublin. 1985. Ed. Martin Green. London: Grafton 1987.
—. Myles Before Miles: A Selection of the Earlier Writings of Brian O’Nolan. Ed. John Wyse Jackson. London: Grafton 1983.
—. The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and The Brother. 1976. Ed. Benedict Kiely. London: Grafton 1988.
O Nuallain, Brian. Mairead Gillan. Baile Atha Cliath: Oifig an tSolathair 1953. [Translation of stage play Margaret Gillan by Brinsley MacNamara (first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1933). London: Allen & Unwin 1934].
—. ‘Naduir-fhiliocht na Gaedhilge’ (Irish Nature Poetry) MA thesis, UCD 1934.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:
Brian O’Nolan Manuscript Collection. Special collections Research Center, Morris Library. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois.
Flann O’Brien collection. Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library. Boston College.
Flann O’Brien Manuscripts and criticism 1934-1989. Harry Ransom Humanities Re search Center. University of Texas at Austin.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Barnabas, Brother [Brian O’Nolan]. ‘Scenes in a Novel.’ Comhthrom Feinne 8.2 (May 1934). Repr. Clissmann, Anne, and David Powell. Eds. The Journal of Irish Literature 3.1 (January 1974). Special Flann O’Brien issue. California: Proscenium 1974: 14-18.
na Gopaleen, Myles. ‘Baudelaire and Kavanagh.’ Envoy 3.12 (November 1952), pp.78-81.
—. ‘De Me.’ New Ireland. (March 1964), pp.41-42.
—. ‘Two in One’ [short story]. The Bell 19.8 (July 1954), pp.30-34.
Nolan, Brian. ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ [short story]. Envoy 1.3 (February 1950), pp.57-62.
O’Brien, Flann. ‘The Dance Halls.’ The Bell 1.5 (February 1941), pp.44-52.
—. ‘Going to the Dogs.’ The Bell 1.1 (October 1940), pp.19-24.
—. ‘John Duffy’s Brother’ [short story]. Story 19.90 (July-August 1941), pp.65-68.
—. ‘The Trade in Dublin.’ The Bell 1.2 (November 1940), pp.6-15.
O’Nolan, Brian. ‘A Sheaf of Letters’ Ed. Robert Hogan and Gordon Henderson. Repr.
Clissmann and Powell: 65-103.
BOOKS, JOURNALS AND THESES ABOUT FLANN O’BRIEN / MYLES NA GCOPALEEN / BRIAN O’NOLAN:
Anderson, Samuel. ‘Pink Paper and the Composition of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ MA Thesis. Louisiana State University, 2002. available online as .pdf; accessed 12 April 2011.
Asbee, Sue. Flann O’Brien. Twayne’s English Authors series. Boston: Twayne 1991.
Baines, Jennika. Ed. ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
Bohman-Kalaja, Kimberly. Reading Games: An Aesthetics of Play in Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, and Georges Perec. Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007.
Booker, M. Keith. Flann O’Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Univ. Press 1995.
Brooker, Joseph. Flann O’Brien. Writers and their Work series. Tavistock: Northcote House, 2005.
Clissmann, Anne. Flann O’Brien: A Critical Introduction to his Writings. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975.
—, and David Powell, eds., The Journal of Irish Literature 3.1 (January 1974) [Special Flann O’Brien Issue] California: Proscenium 1974.
Clune [Clissmann], Anne, and Tess Hurson. Eds. Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies 1997.
Costello, Peter, and Peter van de Kamp. Flann O’Brien: An Illustrated Biography. London: Bloomsbury 1987.
Cronin, Anthony. No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien. London: Grafton 1989.
Davis, Victoria. ‘Restating a Parochial Vision: A Reconsideration of Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, and Brendan Behan.’ (PhD; University of Texas at Austin, 2005; available online; accessed 12 April 2011.
Donohue, Keith. The Irish Anatomist: A Study of Flann O’Brien. Bethesda, MD: Aca demica Press, 2002.
Epp, Michael Henry. ‘Saving Cruiskeen Lawn: Satirical Parody in the Novels and Journalism of Flann O’Brien (Myles na gCopaleen).’ MA Thesis. McGill University, Toronto 1999. available online; accessed 12 April 2011.
Foster, Thomas C. Ed. A Casebook on Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004; available online; Accessed 12 April 2011.
Gillespie, Alana. ‘Brian O’Nolan’s Comic and Critical Reconception of Narratives of the Embellished Past in Independent Ireland 1938-1966.’ [PhD; Utrecht University, 2010. available online; accessed 12 April 2011].
Imhof, Rudiger. Ed. Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Dublin: Wolfhound 1985.
Jones, Stephen. Ed. A Flann O’Brien Reader. New York: Viking Press 1978.
O’Keeffe, Timothy. Ed. Myles: Portraits of Brian O’Nolan. London: Martin Brian & O’Keeffe 1973.
O Nuallain, Ciaran. The Early Years of Brian O’Nolan / Flann O’Brien / Myles na gCopaleen. Trans. from the Irish by Roisin Ni Nuallain. Ed. Niall O’Nolan. Dublin: Lilliput Press 1998.
Robin, Thierry. Flann O’Brien: Un Voyageur au bout du langage. Rennes, France: PU de Rennes, 2008.
Shea, Thomas F. Flann O’Brien’s Exorbitant Novels. Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press 1992; London: Associated University Presses 1992.
Taaffe, Carol. Ireland Through the Looking Glass: Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate. Cork: Cork Univ. Press, 2008.
Thibodeau, Clay. ‘Treating the Literary Literally: The Reflexive Structure of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ MA Thesis. University of Saskatchewan, 2003. Available as .pdf; accessed 12 April 2011 .
Wappling, Eva. ‘Four Irish Legendary Figures in At Swim-Two-Birds: Flann O’Brien’s Use of Finn, Suibhne, the Pooka and the Good Fairy’ Diss. Uppsala University 1984.Yurkoski, Chris. ‘Self-evident Shams: Metafiction and Comedy in Three of Flann O’Brien’s Novels’ MA Thesis. University of Western Ontario 1998. Available online as pdf; accessed 12 Apri1 2011.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES ABOUT FLANN O’BRIEN / MYLES NA GCOPALEEN / BRIAN O’NOLAN:
Anspaugh, Kelly. ‘Flann O’Brien: Postmodern Judas.’ Notes on Modern Irish Literature 4 (1992), pp.11-16.
Baines, Jennika. ‘A Rock and a Hard Place: Sweeny as Sisyphus and Job in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Ed. Edwina Keown and Carol Taaffe. Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics. Oxford & New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010. 145-58.
Benstock, Bernard. ‘The Three Faces of Brian O’Nolan.’ Eire-Ireland 3.3 (Autumn 1968), pp.51-65.
Bobotis, Andrea. ‘Queering Knowledge in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman.’ Irish University Review 32.2 (Autumn/Winter 2002), pp.242-58.
Booker, M. Keith. ‘The Bicycle and Descartes: Epistemology in the Fiction of Beckett and O’Brien.’ Eire-Ireland 26.1 (Spring 1991), pp.76-94.
—. ‘Science, Philosophy, and The Third Policeman: Flann O’Brien and the Epistemology of Futility.’ South Atlantic Review 56. 4 (November 1991), pp.37-56.
—. ‘The Dalkey Archive: Flann O’Brien’s Critique of Mastery.’ Irish University Review Vol. 23, No. 2 (Autumn-Winter 1993), pp.269-285.
Borges, Jorges Luis. ‘When Fiction Lives in Fiction’ (1939) [review of At Swim-Two-Birds]. The Total Library: Non-Fiction: 1922-1986. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger. London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 1999. 160-62.
Breuer, Rolf. ‘Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett.’ Irish University Review 37.2 (Autumn/Winter 2007), pp.340-51.
Brooker, Joseph. ‘Estopped By Grand Playsaunce: Flann O’Brien’s Post-Colonial Lore.’ Journal of Law and Society, 31:1 (March 2004), 15-37.
—. ‘Mind That Crowd : Flann O’Brien’s Authors.’ Authorship in Context: From the Theoretical to the Material. Ed. Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Polina Mackay. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007:91-110.
—. ‘Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien.’ The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature, Volume Two: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Julia M. Wright. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: 176-191.
—. ‘Flann O’Brien.’ Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
Brown, Terence. ‘Post-modernists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien.’ The Literature of Ireland: Criticism and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010. 104-121.
Browne, Joseph. ‘Flann O’Brien: Post Joyce or Propter Joyce?.’ Eire-Ireland 19.4 (Winter 1984), pp.148-57.
Burgess, Anthony. ‘Flann O’Brien: A Note.’ Etudes Irlandaises 7 (December 1982), pp.83-86.
Chace, William M. ‘Joyce and Flann O’Brien.’ Eire-Ireland 22.4 (Winter 1987), pp.140-52.
Clissmann, Anne. ‘Brian alias Myles alias Flann.’ The Word (September 1977), pp.11-13. Clune, Anne. ‘Flann O’Brien: Twenty Years On.’ The Linen Hall Review Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1986), pp.4-7.
Cohen, David. ‘An Atomy of the Novel: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Twentieth Century Literature 39.2 (Summer 1993), pp.208-29.
—. ‘James Joyce and the Decline of Flann O’Brien.’ Eire-Ireland 22.2 (Summer 1987), pp.153-60.
Comer, Todd A. ‘A Mortal Agency: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Journal of Modern Literature 31.2 (Winter 2008), pp.104-114.
Conte, Joseph M. ‘Metaphor and Metonymy in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Review of Contemporary Fiction 5.1 (1985), pp.128-34.
Cooper, Stanford Lee. ‘Eire’s Columnist: An Interview with Brian O’Nolan.’ Time Magazine (23 August 1943), pp.90-92.
Costello, Peter. ‘Mylesian Mysteries.’ Sunday Independent (6 December 1987).
Coulouma, Flore. ‘Transgressive and Subversive: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of the In-Between.’ Ed. Ciaran Ross. Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2010. 65-85.
Cronin, Anthony. Chapter 6 [on Brian O’Nolan]. Dead as Doornails. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1986.
Curran, Steve. ‘‘No, This is not from The Bell’: Brian O’Nolan’s 1943 Cruiskeen Lawn Anthology.’ Eire-Ireland 32.2-3 (Summer-Autumn 1997), pp.79-92.
Davison, Neil R. ‘‘We are not a doctor for the body’: Catholicism, the Female Grotesque, and Flann O’Brien’s The Hard Life.’ Literature and Psychology: A Journal of Psychoanalytic and Cultural Criticism 45.4 (1999), pp.31-57.
Devlin, Joseph. ‘The Politics of Comedy in At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Eire-Ireland 27.4 (Winter 1992), pp.91-105.
Dewsnap, Terence. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Politics of Buffoonery.’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 19.1 (July 1993), pp.22-36.
Dobbins, Gregory. ‘Constitutional Laziness and the Novel: Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42.1 (2009), pp.86-108.
Doherty, Francis. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Existentialist Hell.’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 15.2 (December 1989), pp.51-67.
Donovan, Stewart. ‘Finn in Shabby Digs: Myth and the Reductionist Process in At Swim-Two-Birds. Antigonish Review 89 (1992), pp.147-53.
Downum, Denell. ‘Citation and Spectrality in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Irish University Review 36.2 (Autumn/Winter 2006), pp.304-20.
Dotterer, Ronald. L. ‘Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, and The Dalkey Archive,’ New Hibernia Review 8.2 (Summer 2004), pp.54-63.
Esty, Joshua. ‘Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and the Post-Post Debate.’ ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 26.4 (October 1995), pp.23-46.
Evans, Eibhlin. ‘‘A Lacuna in the Palimpsest’: A Reading of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two-Birds.’ Critical Survey 15.1 (January 2003), pp.91-107.
Fackler, Herbert V. ‘Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman: Banjaxing Natural Order,’ The South Central Bulletin 38.4 (Winter 1978), pp.142-45.
Gallagher, Monique. ‘Flann O’Brien: Myles from Dublin.’ The Princess Grace Library Lectures, 7. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1991. 7-24.
—. ‘Flann O’Brien: jeu et double-jeu.’ Cycnos 10.2 (1993), pp.75-84.
—. ‘The Poor Mouth: Flann O’Brien and the Gaeltacht.’ Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol. 72, No. 287 (Autumn 1983), pp.231-241.
—. ‘Reflecting Mirrors in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Journal of Narrative Technique 22.2 (Spring 1992), pp.128-35.
Giebus, Jay. ‘Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol. 80, No. 317 (Spring 1991), pp.65-76.
Harriman, Lucas. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Creative Betrayal of Joyce.’ New Hibernia Review 14:4 (Winter 2010), pp.90-109.
Hassett, Joseph M. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Idea of the City.’ The Irish Writer and the City. Ed. Maurice Harmon. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble; Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1984. 115-24.
Henry, P. L. ‘The Structure of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Irish University Review 20.1 (1990), pp.35-40.
Higgins, Aidan. ‘The Faceless Creator.’ The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society 8.1 (Spring 1995), pp.30-35.
—. ‘The Hidden Narrator,’ Asylum Arts Review 1.1 (Autumn 1995), pp.2-7.
Hogan, Thomas. ‘Myles na gCopaleen.’ The Bell 13.2 (November 1946), pp.129-40.
Hopper, Keith. ‘The balm and the bane of the intelligentsia’ [review of ‘Is It About a Bicycle?’: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jennika Baines (Four Courts Press, 2011)], Irish Times (26 March 2011), Weekend Review section: 11.
—. ‘The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Flann O’Brien and the Censorship Code.’ Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies (Proceedings of 1999 IASIL Conference), no. 11 (2000), pp.119-131. Revised and expanded version in Literature and Ethics: Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies. Eds. Neil Murphy, Brendan Quigley and Tamara Wagner. New York: Cambria Press, 2009. 221-41.
—. ‘Delighted and Daunted: Reading and Re-reading Flann O’Brien’s The Third Police man.’ Printed Project 12: Virtual Fictional (July 2010), pp.78-87.
Huber, Werner. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Language of the Grotesque.’ Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture. Eds. Birgit Bramsback & Martin Croghan. Uppsala: Uppsala University 1988. 123-30.
Hughes, Eamonn. ‘Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds in the age of mechanical reproduction.’ Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics. Ed. Edwina Keown and Carol Taaffe. Oxford & New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010. 111-28.
Hunt, Roy L. ‘Hell Goes Round and Round: Flann O’Brien.’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 14.2 (January 1989), pp.60-73.
Imhof, Rudiger. ‘Chinese Box: Flann O’Brien in the Metafiction of Alasdair Gray, John Fowles and Robert Coover.’ Eire-Ireland 25.1 (Spring 1990), pp.64-79.
—. ‘Cronin’s Miles Inglorious’ [review of No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien by Anthony Cronin]. Irish Times (11 November 1989).
—. ‘Flann O’Brien: A Checklist.’ Etudes Irlandaises 4 (1979), pp.125-48.
Ingersoll, Earl G. ‘Irish Jokes: A Lacanian Reading of Short Stories by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, and Bryan MacMahon.’ Studies in Short Fiction 27.2 (Spring 1990), pp.237-45.
Jacek, Eva. ‘The Conundrum of Cliches: Flann O’Brien’s ‘The Catechism of Cliche’ and Jonathan Swift’s A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (Polite Conversation).’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 25.1-2 (July-December 1999), pp.497-509.
—. ‘Schemers and Squanderers: Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal and Flann O’Brien’s Slattery’s Sago Saga.’ New Hibernia Review Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 1998), pp.100-115.
Jacquin, Danielle. ‘Never Apply Your Front Breaks First, or Flann O’Brien and the Theme of the Fall.’ The Irish Novel in Our Time. Ed. Patrick Rafroidi and Maurice Harmon. Lille: Publications de l’Universite de Lille III 1976. 187-97.
Janik, Del Ivan. ‘Flann O’Brien: The Novelist as Critic.’ Eire-Ireland 4.4 (Winter 1969), pp.64-72.
Johnston, Denis. ‘Myles na Gopaleen.’ Myth and Reality in Irish Literature. Ed. Joseph Ronsley. Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press 1977. 297-304.
Kemnitz, Charles. ‘Beyond the Zone of Middle Dimensions: A Relativistic Reading of The Third Policeman.’ Irish University Review 15.1 (Spring 1985), pp.56-72.
Kennedy, Conan. Looking for De Selby (Killala, Mayo: Morrigan 1998). 31 pp.
Kennedy, Maurice. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Irish Times (5 November 1962).
Kennedy, Sighle. ‘The Devil and Holy Water: Samuel Beckett’s Murphy and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Modern Irish Literature. Eds. Raymond A. Porter and James D. Brophy. New York: Iona College Press 1972. 251-60.
Kenner, Hugh. ‘The Mocker.’ A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. 253-61.
Kiberd, Declan. ‘Flann O’Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth.’ Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. London: Vintage 1996. 497-512.
Kiely, Benedict. ‘Bells are Ringing for a Work of High Genius.’ Irish Press (11 November 1961).
—. ‘Fun After Death.’ New York Times Book Review (12 November 1967).
—. ‘Rare Roads to Hell.’ Irish Times (2 September 1967).
Kilroy, Thomas. ‘Tellers of Tales.’ Times Literary Supplement (17 March 1972), pp.301-02.
—. ‘The Year in Review.’ Irish University Review 5.1 (Spring 1968), pp.112-17.
Lanters, Jose. ‘Fiction within Fiction: The Role of the Author in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman.’ Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 13 (1983), pp.267-81.
—. ‘Flann O’Brien (1911-1966).’ Unauthorised Versions: Irish Menippean Satire 1919-1952. Washington D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2000. 173-234.
—. ‘‘Still Life’ Versus Real Life: The English Writings of Brian O’Nolan.’ Explorations in the Field of Nonsense. Ed. Wim Tigges. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1987. 161-81.
Lee, L.L. ‘The Dublin Cowboys of Flann O’Brien.’ Western American Literature 4.3 (Fall 1969), pp.219-25.
MacMahon, Barbara. ‘The Effects of Word Substitution in Slips of the Tongue: Finnegans Wake and The Third Policeman.’ English Studies 82.3 (2001), pp.231-46.
MacPiarais, Micheal. ‘Postmodern and Postcolonial Tensions in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ New Voices in Irish Literary Criticism: Ireland in Theory. Eds. Cathy McGlynn & Paula Murphy. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. 55-68.
Martin, Augustine. ‘Worlds Within Worlds.’ Irish Press (23 September 1967).
Maslen, R.W. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Bombshells: At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman.’ New Hibernia Review Vol 10, No. 4, (Winter 2006), pp.84-10
Mathewes, Jeffrey. ‘The Manichaean Body in The Third Policeman: or Why Joe’s Skin Is Scaly.’ The Scriptorium: Flann O’Brien. Accessed 21 January 2008. <http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/ obrien_mathewes.pdf>.
Mays, J.C.C. ‘Brian O’Nolan and Joyce on Art and Life.’ James Joyce Quarterly 11.3 (Spring 1974), pp.238-56.
—. ‘Flann O’Brien, Beckett and the Undecidable Text of Ulysses.’ Irish University Review Vol. 22, No. 1, Serving the Word: Essays and Poems in Honour of Maurice Harmon (Spring-Summer 1992), pp.127-134.
Mazullo, Concetta. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Hellish Otherworld: From Buile Suibhne to The Third Policeman.’ Irish University Review 25.2 (Autumn/Winter 1995), pp.318-27.
McGuire, Jerry L. ‘Teasing after Death: Metatextuality in The Third Policeman.’ Eire-Ireland 16.2 (Summer 1981), pp.107-21.
McKibben, Sarah E. ‘An Beal Bocht: Mouthing Off at National Identity.’ Eire-Ireland 38.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2003), pp.37-53.
—. ‘The Poor Mouth: A Parody of (Post)Colonial Irish Manhood.’ Research in African Literatures 34.4 (Winter 2003), pp.96-114.
McLoughlin, Michael. ‘At Swim Six Characters or Two Birds in Search of an Author: Fiction, Metafiction and Reality in Pirandello and Flann O’Brien.’ Yearbook of the Society for Pirandello Studies 12 (1992), pp.24-31.
McMullen, Kim. ‘Culture as Colloquy: Flann O’Brien’s Postmodern Dialogue with Irish Tradition,’ NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.1 (Autumn 1993), pp.62-84.
McWilliams, Brendan. ‘Winds of a Different Hue.’ Irish Times (11 December 1992).
Mellamphy, Ninian. ‘Aestho-autogamy and the Anarchy of Imagination: Flann O’Brien’s Theory of Fiction in At Swim-Two-Birds. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 4.1 (June 1978), pp.8-25.
Mercier, Vivian. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Commonweal 54.3 (27 April 1951), pp.68-69.
Merritt, Henry. ‘Games, Ending and Dying in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Irish University Review 25 (Autumn/Winter 1995), pp.308-17.
Mihalycsa, Erika. ‘Hybridity and Parody in Ulysses and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Philologia 3 (2007), pp.169-180.
Montgomery, Niall. ‘An Aristrophanic Sorcerer.’ Irish Times (2 April 1966).
Montresor, Jaye Berman. ‘Gilbert Sorrentino: At Swim in the Wake of His Gene Pool.’ Modern Language Studies 23.2 (Spring 1993), pp.4-12.
Murfi, Mikel. Dir. John Duffy’s Brother. Ireland: Park Films, 2006. 14 mins.
Murphy, Neil. ‘Flann O’Brien.’ The Review of Contemporary Fiction 25.3 (Fall 2005), pp.7-41.
—. ‘Ambiguity, Dissent, and Anxiety: Anti-Realism in the 20th Century Irish Short Story.’ Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction. 9:2: 10-26.
O’Brien, Kate. ‘Fiction’ [includes review of At Swim-Two-Birds]. Spectator (14 April 1939), pp.646.
O Conaire, Breandan. ‘Flann O’Brien, An Beal Bocht and Other Irish Matters.’ Irish University Review 3.2 (Autumn 1973), pp.121-40.
O’Donoghue, Bernard. ‘Humour and Verbal Logic.’ Critical Quarterly 24.1 (Spring 1982), pp.33-40.
O’Grady, Thomas B. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds and the Bardic Schools.’ Eire-Ireland 24.3 (Autumn 1989), pp.65-77.
O Hainle, Cathal G. ‘Fionn and Suibhne in At Swim-Two-Birds.’ Hermathena 142 (1987), pp.13-49.
O’Hara, Patricia. ‘Finn MacCool and the Bard’s Lament in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two-Birds.’ Journal of Irish Literature 15.1 (January 1986), pp.55-61.
O’Hehir, Brendan P. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Big World.’ Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World. Studies in English and Comparative Literature, vol. 3: National Images and Stereotypes. Ed. Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok, Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag 1987). 207-16.
Orvell, Miles. ‘Entirely Fictitious: The Fiction of Flann O’Brien.’ Alive-Alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds. Ed. Rudiger Imhof. Dublin: Wolfhound 1985. 101-06.
—, and David Powell. ‘Myles na Gopaleen: Mystic, Horse-Doctor, Hackney Journalist and Ideological Catalyst’ Eire-Ireland 10.2 (Summer 1975), pp.44-72.
O’Toole, Mary A. ‘The Theory of Serialism in The Third Policeman.’ Irish University Review 18.2 (Autumn 1988), pp.215-25.
Otoiu, Adrian, ‘From At Swim-Two-Birds to La Doi Lebadoi: Translating Flann O’Brien into Romanian.’ Internationalist Review of Irish Culture (Spring 2007), pp.63-83.
Palm, Kurt. Dir. In Schwimmen-Zwei-Vogel [At Swim-Two-Birds]. Austria: Fischer. Film 1997. 93 mins.
Pinsker, Sanford. ‘Flann O’Brien’s Uncles and Orphans.’ Eire-Ireland 20.2 (Summer 1985), pp.133-38.
Powell, David. ‘An Annotated Bibliography of Myles na gCopaleen’s ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ Commentaries on James Joyce.’ James Joyce Quarterly 9.1 (Fall 1971), pp.50-62.
Power, Mary. ‘Flann O’Brien and Classical Satire: An Exegesis of The Hard Life.’ Eire-Ireland 13.1 (Spring 1978), pp.87-102.
Quintelli-Neary, Marguerite. ‘Flann O’Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman—Temporal and Spatial Incongruities.’ Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels. Westport, CT: Greenwood 1997. 83-97.
Riggs, Padraigin, and Norman Vance. ‘Irish Prose Fiction’ [includes section on Flann O’Brien]. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Ed. Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. 245-66.
Roberts, Ruth. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds as Self-evident Sham’ Eire-Ireland 6.2 (Summer 1971), pp.76-97.
Sage, Lorna. ‘Flann O’Brien’ Two Decades of Irish Writing: A Critical Survey. Ed. Douglas Dunn. Pennsylvania: Dufour 1975. 197-206.
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