The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

A peer-reviewed open-access academic journal dedicated to the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan (pseud. Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen).

Featured Articles

Elliott Mills

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions 

Dieter Fuchs

Milesian Rewritings of the Annunciation to the Virgin in ‘The Martyr’s Crown’ via Petronius, Dante, and Shakespeare

Talia Abu

Mickey Finn: Inebriation and Creativity in Myles na gCopaleen’s ‘Drink and Time in Dublin’

Latest News Posts

Winners of 2025 Flann O'Brien Awards Announced! 
Posted by International Flann O'Brien Society on 2025-06-30

Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or edited monograph on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan published over a 2-year period. The Society Awards ceremony took place on Wednesday 25 June at the opening ceremony of ‘An Fód [...]

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  • Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies


General Editors: Ruben Borg, Alana Gillespie, Maebh Long

Cover image credit: Michéal Ó Nualláin, Kilroy Is Here (Michéal Ó Nualláin, 2009), 28.

Cover design: Ellie Hastings, https://www.eehastings.com/about

Editors: Joseph LaBine (Guest Editor), Tobias W Harris (Guest Editor)

Articles

Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction

Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction

  • Zan Cammack

Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–22

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions 

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions 

  • Elliott Mills

Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Review

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)

  • Einat Adar

Volume 9 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–6

  • Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

  • Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

  • Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

  • Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2021 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

  • Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2020 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

    Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2020 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies