Anti-Writer
Clair Wills: Plain Brian O’Nolan, 4 April 2019
The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 62897 183 5 Show More
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,
“... In October 1938 – in his first outing as Flann O’Brien – he intervened in a debate between Sean O’Faolain and Frank O’Connor on ‘Ideals for an Irish Theatre’, in the letters pages of the Irish Times. The spat was self-consciously intellectual, with O’Connor arguing for a return to ‘peasant quality’ and O’Faolain in favour of importing ... ”