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...force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print literary classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in Transition | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...FLANN O'BRIEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 10 of TIME's Hundred Best Novels | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

Guinness Lager, strong coffee, deconstructionist fiction and Irish accents abounded this weekend in the Adams House Lower Common Room, as Richard Eoin Nash '92-'93 attempted a 24-hour long reading of Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel AT SWIM TWO BIRDS...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Student Salutes Author With 24-Hour Recital | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

Adapted by Richard E. Nash '92 from the writings of modernist Irish author Flann O'Brien, Hair of the Dogma is an intriguing, confusing, play. And in its own absurd but highly credible way, it is very funny...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Blarney or Brilliance? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing a cast of tavern regulars that Flann O'Brien or Dylan Thomas would have stood to a round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notable: BOGMAIL | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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