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

Katherine Ebury

New Contexts for Confession: Brian O’Nolan, Golden Age Crime Fiction, & Theodor Reik

Tobias Harris

'Something entirely new': A Critical History of An Béal Bocht, 1941–75

Jessie Burnette

'better in his grave than in that bed': The Construction of Rest in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds

Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

General Editors: Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, Maebh Long

Cover design: Paul Fagan

Cover image: Detail from John Constable, 'Seascape Study with Rain Cloud (Rainstorm over the Sea)' (1828, oil on paper)

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

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

Dieter Fuchs

2024-05-27 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1-19

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On Thooleramawns, Thullabawns, and Gawshkogues: The Role of Hiberno-English in Myles na gCopaleen’s Lexicon of Libel

On Thooleramawns, Thullabawns, and Gawshkogues: The Role of Hiberno-English in Myles na gCopaleen’s Lexicon of Libel

Frank McNally

2024-06-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

At Swim-Two-Books: In Search of the Second State of At Swim-Two-Birds

At Swim-Two-Books: In Search of the Second State of At Swim-Two-Birds

Pádraig Ó Méalóid

2024-07-16 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

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CFP - Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley
Posted by The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies on 2024-07-25

Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley  7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote speakers Dr. Maebh Long (University of Waikato)Editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien and author of Assembling Flann O’Brien Professor Dana Sawyer (Maine College of Art & Design)Author of Aldous Huxley: A Biography and editor of Aldous Huxley and Self-Realization Featured [...]

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