Selected Criticism

Benstock, Bernard ‘The Three Faces of Brian Nolan',Éire-Ireland, 3, 3 (Autumn 1968), pp.51-65.

Benstock, Bernard ‘A Flann for all Seasons’, Irish Renaissance Annual, 3 (1982), pp.15-29.

Booker, Keith M. Flann O’Brien: Bahktin, and Mennipean Satire (Syracuse UP 1995), 163pp.

Boyle, Patrick ‘Books We Enjoyed Most in ’67’,Hibernia, 32, 1 ([?] Jan. 1968), p.21.

Boyle, Patrick ‘At Whim-Few Surds’ [review of The Best of Myles], in Hibernia, 32, 10 ([?] October 1968), p.68.

Brooker, J. ‘Estopped by Grand Playsaunce: Flann O’Brien’s Post-colonial Lore’, in Journal of Law and Society, 31, 1 (March 2004), pp.15-37.

Brooker, Joseph, 2005. Flann O’Brien. Northcote House Publishers Ltd.

Browne, Joseph ‘Flann O’Brien, Post Joyce or Propter Joyce?’, Éire-Ireland, 19, 4 (Winter 1984), pp.148-57.

Burgess, Antony ‘Flann O’Brien, A Note’, Études Irelandaises Univ. de Lille III] No. 7 [n. s.] (December 1982), pp.83-86.

Cahalan, James ‘Fantasia, Irish Fabulists 1920-55’ [Chp. 6],The Irish Novel: A Critical History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988), pp.220-60.

Clissmann, Anne & David Powell, eds., ‘A Flann O’Brien Special Number’ Journal of Irish Literature, 3 (January 1974)

Clissmann, Anne Flann O’Brien: A Biographical and Critical Introduction to His Writing (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975).

Clune, Anne, and Tess Hurson, eds., 1997.Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queens Univ. of Belfast.

Cohen, David ‘James Joyce and the Decline of Flann O’Brien’, Éire-Ireland Journal of Irish Studies, 22, 2 (Summer 1987), pp.153-60.

Corballis, Richard ‘Wilde ... Joyce ... O’Brien Stoppard: Modernism and Postmodernism in Travesties’, in J[anet] E. Dunleavy, M[artin] J. Friedman, M[ichael] P. Gillespie, eds., Joycean Occasions (Delaware UP 1991), pp.157-70.

Cronin, Anthony ‘An Extraordinary Achievement’, in Irish Times (5 Dec. 1975), and ‘After at Swim’, in The Irish Times (12 Dec. 1975).

Cronin, Anthony ‘Flann O’Brien: The Flawed Achievement’, in Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language(Dingle: Brandon 1982), pp.203-14.

Cronin, Anthony ‘Post Structuralists, Post Modernists, Post Everything: Myles among the Academics’, in The Irish Times (1 April 1986), p.12.

Cronin, Anthony, Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life (Dublin: Dolmen/Talbot 1976; rep. Oxford Pbks. 1994).

Cronin, John ‘Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds’, in The Anglo-Irish Novel, Vol II (Belfast: Appletree 1990), pp.170-82.

Curran, Steven ‘“No, This is Not From The Bell”: Brian O’Nolan’s 1943 Cruiskeen Lawn Anthology’, in Éire-Ireland, 32, 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 1997), pp.79–92.

Curran, Steven ‘Designs on an “Elegant Utopia”: Brian O’Nolan and Vocational Organisation', Bullán, V, 2 (Winter/Spring 2001), pp.87–116.

Curran, Steven ‘“Could Paddy Leave Off from Copying Just for Five Minutes?”: Brian O’Nolan and Éire’s Beveridge Plan’, Irish University Review, 31, 2 (Autumn/Winter 2001), pp.353–76.

de Paor, Louis ‘Myles na gCopaleen agus Drochshampla na Dealeabhar’, The Irish Review, 23 (Winter 1998), pp.24-32.

Deane, Seamus ‘Irish Modernism: Fiction’, in A Short History of Irish Literature (London: Hutchinson 1986), pp.193-99.

Dewsnap, Terence ‘Flann O’Brien and The Politics Of Buffoonery’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 19, 1 (July 1993), pp.22-36.

Dietrich, Julia ‘Flann O’Brien’s Parody of Transubstantiation in The Dalkey Archive’, Notes on Contemporary Literature, 10, V (1980), pp.5-6.

Dillon, Thomas Redshaw ‘O’Nolan’s First Limbo: On the Imaginative Structure of At Swim-Two-Birds’, Dublin Magazine, 9, 2 (Winter/Spring 1971/72), pp.89-99.

Fallis, Richard ‘All of O’Nolan’s work could be described as a series of brilliant farragoes of distinctly Irish experience’ (The Irish Renaissance: An Introduction to Anglo-Irish Literature, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1978, p.218].

Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Allen Lane; NY Viking/Penguin 1988), p.518-19.

Gallagher, Monique, Flann O’Brien: Myles from Dublin, pamphlet No. 7 [Princess Grace Lib. Lect. Series, Monaco] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1991), [7-]24pp..

Gitzen, Julian ‘The Wayward Theoreticians of Flann O’Brien’ Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, 15, 1&2 (1995): pp.50-62.

Glacken Brendan ‘Myles, the Da and the Brothers’, Irish Times (30 Jan. 1999), [q.p.], review of

Greene, Graham ‘A Book in a Thousand’, 1939; rep. in Rüdiger Imhof, ed.,Alive-alive O!,1985, p.42.

Henry, P. L. ‘The Structure of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds’, Irish University Review, 20, 1 (Spring 1990), c.p.37.

Hill, John ‘Archetypes of the Irish Soul (II)’, Crane Bag, Vol. 2, Nos.1 & 2 (1978), [q.pp.], rep.Crane Bag Book(1982), p.253.

Hogan, Thomas [pseudonym of Thomas Wood, of the Dept. of External Affairs. aka ‘Thersites'The Irish Times], ‘Myles na gCopaleen',The Bell, XIII, 2 (1946), pp.126-40 [a witty ad hominem attack].

Hopper, Keith, 2009.Flann O'Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-Modernist. Cork University Press.

Imhof, Rüdiger [review of] ‘Hair of the Dogma’, in Irish University Review, 9, 1 (Spring 1979), pp.187-89.

Imhof, Rüdiger ’Flann O’Brien: A Checklist’, Études Irlandaises(Dec. 1979), pp.125-48.

Imhof, Rüdiger ‘To Meta-Novelists, Sternesque Elements in Novels by Flann O’Brien’,Anglo-Irish Studies, 4 (1979), pp.59-90.

Imhof, Rüdiger ed.,Alive-alive O!: Flann O’Brien’s ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ (Dublin: Wolfhound 1985, 1993).

Ingersoll, Earl. G. ‘Irish Jokes: A Lacanian Reading of Short Stories by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, and Bryan MacMahon’, Studies in Short Fiction, 2 (Spring 1990): pp.237-45.

Jacquin, Danielle ‘Never Apply Your Front Brake First, or Flann O’Brien and the Theme of a Fall’, in Patrick Rafroidi and Maurice Harmon, eds., The Irish Novel in Our Time (Lille, 1975-76), pp.187-97.

Janik, Del Ivan ‘Flann O’Brien: The Novelist as Critic', Éire-Ireland, 4, 4 (Winter 1969), pp.56-63.

Johnston, Denis ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ in Ronsley, ed., Myth and Reality in Irish Literature (1977).

Jordan, John ‘The Saddest Book Ever to Come Out of Ireland’ [review of At Swim],Hibernia, 24,

46(5 Aug. 1960), p.5.

Jordan, John ‘Dublin Theatre Festival: Flann O’Brien’s Fantasy’, Hibernia, 29, 11 ([?] Nov. 1965), p.17.

Kelly, Seamus ‘Brian O’Nolan: Scholar, Satirist and Wit’, in The Irish Times (2 April 1966), rep. Journal of Irish Literature, Jan. 1974.

Kelly, John M. ‘Matchless Ashplant’ [review of ‘Hair of the Dogma’], in Hibernia (28 Oct. 1977), p.25.

Kemnitz, Charles ‘Beyond the Zone of the Middle Dimensions, a Relativistic Reading of The Third Policeman’, Irish University Review, 15, 2 (Spring 1985), pp.56-72.

Kennedy, Conan Looking for De Selby (Killala, Co. Mayo: Morrigan [Morigna MediaCo Teo] 1998), 32pp.

Kennelly, Brendan ‘An Béal Bocht’, in John Jordan, ed., The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature (1977), pp.85-96.

Kenner, Hugh ‘The Mocker’ [Chap.], in A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers (NY: Knopf 1983), pp.318-28.

Kenner, Hugh (‘Warning’ ([Chap.,] in A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers, 1984).

Kenner, Hugh ‘The Fourth Policeman’, in Anne Clune & Tess Hurson, eds., Conjuring Complexities (1997).

Kiberd, Declan ‘Writers in Quarantine?: The Case for Irish Studies’, Crane Bag, III, 1 (1979), pp.9-21.

Kiberd, Declan ‘Flann O’Brien, Myles, and The Poor Mouth’, in Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape 1995) [Chap. 28], pp.497-512.

Kiberd, Declan ‘Gaelic Absurdism: At-Swim-Two-Birds’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.500-19.

Kiely, Benedict ‘The Whores on the Half-Doors, or an Image of the Irish Writer’, in Owen Dudley Edwards, ed., Conor Cruise O’Brien Introduces Ireland, 1969, pp.148-61 [rep. in A Raid into Dark Corners, Cork UP, 1991].

Kilroy, Thomas ‘Fiction’ [review of The Third Policeman] in Irish University Review, V, 1 (Spring 1968), p.112-17.

Kilroy, Thomas ‘Teller of Tales’, Times Literary Supplement (17 March 1972), p.301.

MacKillop, James ‘The Figure of Finn MacCool: A Study of Celtic Archetypes in the Works of James Macpherson, Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, and Others’ [PhD] (Syracuse Univ. 1975).

McGuinness, Frank [review of The Third Policeman], ‘Books’, Queen (1 Sept. 1967), pp.10-11.

McIntyre, Tom ‘The Dalkey Archive’, Dublin Magazine, 4, 1 (Spring 1965), p.86.

Maguire, Jerry L. ‘Teasing After Death, Metatextuality in The Third Policeman’, Éire-Ireland, 16, 2 (Summer 1986), pp.107-21.

Martin, Augustine ‘Fable and Fantasy’, in Martin, ed., The Genius of Irish Prose (Cork: Mercier 1985), pp.110-20.

Mays, J. C. C. ‘Brian O’Nolan and James Joyce on Art and on Life’, James Joyce Quarterly, XI, 3 (1974), pp.238-56.

Mays, J. C. C. ‘Flann O’Brien, Beckett, and the Undecidable Text of Ulysses’, Irish University Review, 22, 1 (Spring/Summer 1992), pp.126-33.

Mazullo, Concetta ‘Flann O’Brien’s Hellish Otherword: From Buile Suibhne to The Third Policeman’, Irish University Review, 25, 2 (Autumn/Winter 1995), pp.318-27.

Mellamphy, N. ‘Aestho-autogamy and the Anarchy of Imagination: Flann O’Brien’s Theory of Fiction in At Swim-Two-Birds’, in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, IV, 1 (June 1978), pp.8-25.

Mercier Vivian The Irish Comic Tradition, Chap. 2, ‘Fantasy, Humour and Ribaldry’ (London: Souvenir Press 1962), pp.11-46.

Merritt, Henry ‘Games, Ending and Dying in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds’, Irish University Review (Autumn/Winter 1995), pp.308-17.

Moore, Brian ‘English Fame and Irish Writers’, London Review of Books, 2, 22 (1980), pp.37-43.

O’Brien, George ‘O’Brien, Flann’, in James Vinson, ed., Great Writers of the English Language: Novelists and Prose Writers (London: Macmillan 1979), pp.916-18.

O’Brien,Kate ‘Fiction’ [review of At Swim Two Birds], The Spectator (14 April 1939), pp.645-46.

Ó Brolcháin, Caoimhghaín ‘Flann, Ó Caoimh agus Suibhne Geilt: Flann O’Keeffe agus Mad Sweeney’, Irish Studies Review (Winter 1995), pp.31-34.

Ó Cadhain, Martín ‘Leabhar atá as Aora Móra Phróis na Gaeilge’, Feasta (Aibréan 1965), pp.25-26.

Ó Conaire, Breandán ‘Flann O'Brien,An Béal Bocht, and Other Irish Matters', Irish University Review 3, 2 (1973), pp.121-40.

Ó Conaire, Breandán Myles na Gaeilge: Lámhleabhar ar Shaothar Gaeilge Bhrian Ó Nualláin, (Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Teo. 1986).

Ó Glaisne, Risteárd ‘Scríbhneoireach Ghaeilge Myles na gCopaleen’, Comhar, 21, 4 (Aibréan 1962), pp.16-19.

Ó Háinle, Cathal ‘Fionn and Suibhne in At Swim-Two-Birds’, in Hermathena, 142 (Summer 1987), cp.25-30.

Ó h-Eithir, Breandán P. ‘Flann O’Brien and the Big World’, in Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. III: National Images and Stereotypes (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp.207-16.

O’Shea,Thomas F. Flann O’Brien’s Exorbitant Novels (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1992

Partridge, A. C. ‘A Trio of Innovators: Joyce, Beckett and Flann O’Brien’, in Language and Society in Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1984), pp.314-17.

Powell, David The English Writings of Flann O’Brien [PhD dissertation] (S. Ill., Univ., May 1970) [Diss. Abst. 31 3560 A].

Powell, David ‘An Annotated Biliography of Myles na gCopaleen’s "Cruiskeen Lawn" Commentaries on James Joyce’, James Joyce Quartlerly, 9, 1 (Fall 1971), pp.50-62.

Roberts, Ruth A. ‘At Swim-Two-Birds and the Novel as Self-evident Sham’, Éire-Ireland, 6, 2 (1971), pp.76-97.

Ryan, John ‘The Incomparable Myles’, in Remembering How We Stood: Dublin at the Mid-Century (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975), pp.127-47.

Sage, Lorna ‘Flann O’Brien’, in Douglas Dunn, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (1975), pp.197-206.

Sheridan, Niall ‘Brian, Flann, and Myles’, in The Irish Times (2 April 1966) [rep. O’Keeffe, ed., Portraits, 1973, pp.32-33].

Silverthorne, J. M. ‘Time, Literature, and Failure: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman’, Éire-Ireland, 9, 4 (Winter 1976), pp.66-83.

Spencer, Andrew ‘The New Physics in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman’, Éire-Ireland, 30, 1 (Spring 1995), pp.145-59.

Stevenson, Randall Modernist Fiction, Hemel Hempstead [Hertfordshire]: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1992, p.167].

Taaffe, Carol ‘Ireland Through the Looking-Glass: Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Irish Cultural Debate. Cork UNiveristy Press, 2008

Throne, Marilyn ‘The Provocative Bicycle of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman’, Éire-Ireland, 21, 4 (Winter 1986), pp.36-44.

Tigges, Wim ‘Ireland and Wonderland, Flann O’Brien’s Third Policeman as Nonsense Novel’, in C. C. Barfoot and Theo D’Haen, eds., The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections (Amst: Rodopi 1989), pp.195-208.

Tuama, Seán Ó ‘Some Highlights of Fiction in Irish’, in Patrick Rafroidi and Maurice Harmon, eds., The Irish Novel in Our Time (Lille Publications de l’Université Lille III 1976), pp.31-47.

Warner, Alan ‘Flann O’Brien’, in A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981), pp.143-68.

West, Anthony ‘New Novels’ [incl. review of At Swim], New Statesman (17 June 1939), pp.940, 942 [rep. as ‘Inspired Nonsense’ in Rüdiger Imhof, Alive-alive O!, 1985].

Wain, John ‘“To Write for My Own Race”: The Fiction of Flann O'Brien', in A House for the Truth: Critical Essays (London: Macmillan 1972), pp.67-104 [first pub. in Encounter, July 1967, pp.71-85].

Wall, Mervyn ‘The Man Who Hated Only Cods', in The Irish Times (2 April 1966).

Wappling, Eva, 1984. Four legendary Figures in At Swim-Two-Birds. Uppsala.