For #Bloomsday, here are my drawings of Joyce himself and also of Flann O’Brien who, well-refreshed, was one of the originators of Bloomsday in 1954.

#JamesJoyce #FlannOBrien #IrishLiterature

Flann O`Brien. Golden Hours.

(…) dass – die gesamte Monsterprozession des Lebens nur als eine Art Laterna-Magica-Vorführung verstanden werden kann, zu schummrig, zu schwach, zu unerträglich undeutlich, um auch nur Kinder zu amüsieren …

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Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin) who wrote under the names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen died on 1st April 1966 in Dublin. He is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #MylesNagCopaleen #BrianONolan #OnThisDay

Goldene Momente

Die Pint wird erhoben, gekonnt geschrägt und ein schwarzer Sturzbach hinunter und an den entzündeten Mandeln vorbei abgeschossen. Schnurrbart langsam mit rotgepunktetem Taschentuch betupft. Lehnt sich zurück. Schreckliches Starren aus seichten überwässerten Augen. Ein langsames, schweres Geklirre von Geplauder folgt :

Golden Hours von Flann O`Brien

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A pint of plain is your only man. #FlannOBrien https://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/Poetry/FlannOBrien.html
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Zettel 2595

Flann O`Brien, Golden Hours. 92.

Wie sinnentleert, wie papageienhaft das Schlagwort, daß Wissen keine Bürde ist! Manchmal, wenn ich, vom intensiven Studium matt, für eine knappe Stunde in die modische Welt auftauche und mit irgendeiner Nullität nur allzu bedeutungslose Worte austausche, werde ich ersucht, diese verlogenste aller Platitüden im Namen der Konversation hinzunehmen. Da schreit man dann ganz laut. Das Mitleid mit der menschlichen Rasse, wird, wenngleich nur kurz, abgetötet. Ein schriller Zorn wächst an Bedrohlichkeit, wo sonst die Heimstatt der Vernunft war.

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Foilsíodh 'At Swim-Two-Birds', úrscéal le Brian Ó Nualláin, den chéad uair ar 13ú lá de Mhí an Mhárta 1939.

At Swim-Two-Birds, a novel by writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien was first published on 13th March 1939. It is widely considered to be O’Brien’s masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #FlannOBrien #BrianONolan #AtSwimTwoBirds #Gaeilge #Gaeilinn

Flann O'Brien - Fasching

https://events.graz.social/events/b99fd6ac-9a3f-414c-8bb8-f5f79e1ad68f

“Aloft in the sky I could see the dim tracery of the stars struggling out here and there between the clouds. And all the time she was under me in a flawless racing onwards, touching the road with the lightest touches, surefooted, straight and faultless, each of her metal bars like spear-shafts superbly cast by angels.”
The man with no name rides out on the sergeant’s bicycle.
#TheThirdPoliceman
#FlannOBrien

“As already said, however, de Selby provides some genuine mental sustenance if read objectively for what there is to read. In the Layman's Atlas[3] he deals explicitly with bereavement, old age, love, sin, death and the other saliencies of existence. It is true that he allows them only some six lines but this is due to his devastating assertion that they are all 'unnecessary’.”
The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien

“'Is it life? he answered. 'I would rather be without it,' he said, for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.'”
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien.
#FlannOBrien

Flann O'Brien's - Birthday Bash

https://events.graz.social/events/9ed1a2eb-f696-4856-a546-80749e72e4a0

Flann O'Brien's - Superbowl Watchparty

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“A divil when he has the few jars on him”, by #FlannOBrien, featuring Niall Tóibín and David Kelly

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/1110/740815-the-wonderful-worlds-of-flann-obrien/

There are three #modernist #writers whose #ShortStories remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:

* #SamuelClemens/ #MarkTwain.
* #BrianONolan/ #FlannOBrien/ #MilesNaGopaleen.
* #HermanCharlesBosman.

Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.

#JosephConrad fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.

There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.

Flanndoodles. #FlannOBrien

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The Master's birthday October 5.
Why exactly did he write as 'Myles na gCopaleen', you say? Wikipedia:
*O'Brien himself always insisted on the translation "Myles of the Ponies", saying that he did not see why the principality of the pony should be subjugated to the imperialism of the horse.*

"If you have no name you cannot own a watch; the watch that has been stolen does not exist; On the other hand you can do what you like, the law cannot touch you"
-3d Policeman

#books

"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."

Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature

#vendredilecture toujours en Irlande et vraiment aucune idée quel livre attaquer en premier. On a passé un fabuleux #bloomsday à Dublin dimanche dernier, acheté une vingtaine de livres difficiles à trouver sur le « continent », dont un essai de #KeithHopper au titre de « Flann O’Brien : Portrait of the artist as a young post-modernist » réclamant que « The Third Policeman » de #FlannOBrien qui se trouvant à une bifurcation de traditions littéraires irlandaises entre « l'héritage blasé du « Celtic Twilight » de #Yeats et les complexités problématiques du modernisme de Joyce » (d’après la présentation) créait une transition paralittéraire des deux. 1/3

Fuair Brian Ó Nualláin a scríobh faoi na hainmneacha Flann O’Brien agus Myles na gCopaleen bas ar 1 Aibreán 1966 i mBaile Átha Cliath.

#Éire #StairNahÉireann #Gaeilge #BrianÓNualláin #FlannOBrien #MylesNagCopaleen #CeartaighMé