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 Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother
First published as a column in the Irish Times, the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman (based on the Romantic poet and the translator of Homer respectively) that comprise this volume illuminate the extraordinary talent of the Irish modernist Flann O’Brien. Labelled by the author ‘studies in literary pathology’, the vignettes – each concluding in a terrible, bathetic pun – are the work of a extraordinarily funny mind exploring the limits of the shaggy dog story. Many have attempted their own Keats and Chapman story, but, in O’Brien’s own words, ‘Nearly all the stories that reach me from the outside are, for one reason or another, pretty bad – bad in the sense that they are too good…’
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 The Complete Novels
In the five novels by Ireland’s greatest comic writer, we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of “At Swim-Two-Birds” to the piercing realism of “The Hard Life” and the surreal logic of “The Third Policeman”. This is a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of ‘diluting’ water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms.
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 Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn
When The Best of Myles was published in 1968, it was hailed (by S. J. Perelman among others) as one of the supreme comic achievements of the English language. This edition covers the period from 1947-1957. Here can be found the true transcripts of Myles's clashes with the law courts on charges of larceny, currency offenses, marrying without the consent of his parents, gang warfare, and using bad language; here too are bizarre obituaries, bores, banalities, jovialities and immoralities, and the return of the preposterous Brother. Also included is the first-ever Myles article.
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 Flann O'Brien At War: Myles na gCopaleen 1940-1945
At War is a collection of Flann O'Brien's columns written for theIrish Times under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen. Taken from the war years of 1940-45, these writings provide plenty of acerbic wit and persistent prodding of "the good people of Ireland." His oftentimes hysterical musings include discussions of theater and what it means to be Irish.
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 The Best of Myles
Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Brian O’Nolan wrote a daily column in the Irish Times called ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’ for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and relentless high spirits Myles' 'Cruiskeen Lawn' became the most feared, respected and uproarious newspaper column in the whole of Ireland from its first appearance in 1940 This wonderful selection from the 'Cruiskeen Lawn' columns is a classic that will appeal to lovers of absurdity and sharp comic observation.
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