The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

A peer-reviewed, diamond open-access academic journal dedicated to the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan (pseud. Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen). It is published by the Open Library of Humanities.

Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Guest Editors: Tobias W. Harris, Emily Reed and Claudia Olk

General Editors: Ruben Borg, Alana Gillespie and Maebh Long

Editorial

Editors’ Introduction: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley

Tobias W. Harris
Emily Reed
Claudia Olk

2026-08-13 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–9

Articles

At Swim-Two-Birds and the Literary Development of Aldous Huxley

Robin Hull
Tobias W. Harris

2026-07-24 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–19

The Biopolitics of Language in Brave New World and An Béal Bocht

Emily Reed

2026-06-24 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–28

Atomic Theory by Osmosis, or, Mozart and a Sausage: Tracing the Molecules of Flann O’Brien’s Scientific Satires back to Aldous Huxley

Maebh Long

2026-07-25 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–19

The Biopolitics of Sleep and Food in Brian O’Nolan’s At Swim-Two-Birds and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

Marianne O'Kane Boal

2026-08-13 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–21

'neither work nor monotony’: Lethargy as Transcendence in Myles na gCopaleen’s An Béal Bocht

Eoin McGloin

2026-08-07 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–18

Print as Pharmakon in the Journalism of Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan

Tobias W. Harris

2026-06-25 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–24

Note

‘The Widely Read Books of Mr A. Huxley’: Flann O'Brien, Aldous Huxley and Book Censorship in Ireland

Pádraig Ó Méalóid

2026-07-12 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–11

Featured Articles

Tobias W Harris, Joseph LaBine

Flann O’Brien and the Irish ‘Radio-Mind,’ 1926-1976

Paul Fagan

H. L. Morrow and Brian O’Nolan on Radio Éireann

Elliott Mills

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

Latest News Posts

Winners of 2025 Flann O'Brien Awards Announced!

Posted by International Flann O'Brien Society on 2025-06-29

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 [...]