biography
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O'Brien, Flann
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pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na Gopaleen
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–66)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Strabane, Co Tyrone, W Northern Ireland, UK. He studied at Dublin, and his first and major novel was At Swim-Two-Birds (1939, translated into Gaelic, 1956). A civil servant, he contributed a column to the Irish Times for some 20 years under his Irish pseudonym. Best known as an idiosyncratic newspaper columnist, various anthologies appeared after his death - The Best of Myles (1968), The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother (1976), and Myles From Dublin (1985). |
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