The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

The Parish Review is 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

Tobias Harris

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

Katherine Ebury

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

Joseph Brooker

Do Bicycles Dream of Atomic Sheep? Forms of the Fantastic in Flann O’Brien and Philip K. Dick

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

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


A special issue of the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies (6.1 Spring 2022) dedicated to 'Brian O'Nolan and the Civil Service.' 
Guest edited by Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills. 
General Editors: Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, Maebh Long
Cover design: Paul Fagan
Cover image: Detail of Brian O'Nolan's doodles from a notebook he kept in his role as Secretary for the 1943 Tribunal of Inquiry into the Fire at St Joseph's Orphanage, Main Street, Cavan. Courtesy of John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Flann O'Brien papers, MS.1997.027, box 5, folder 16.


Editorial

Bureaucratic Poetics: Brian O’Nolan and the Irish Civil Service

Bureaucratic Poetics: Brian O’Nolan and the Irish Civil Service

Elliott Mills and Jonathan Foster

2022-06-24 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1-15

Article

A Distasteful Milieu: Brian O’Nolan and the Civil Service, 1935–51

A Distasteful Milieu: Brian O’Nolan and the Civil Service, 1935–51

Martin Maguire

2022-07-04 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–18

John Garvin and Brian O’Nolan in Civil Service: Bureaucratic, Joycean Modernism

John Garvin and Brian O’Nolan in Civil Service: Bureaucratic, Joycean Modernism

Joseph LaBine and Tobias W Harris

2022-07-15 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

'F___ the County Council': Local Government and the Biopolitics of Flann O’Brien

'F___ the County Council': Local Government and the Biopolitics of Flann O’Brien

John Conlan

2022-07-19 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–24

Note

Mylesean Onomastics: Games Names Play (Part 1)

Mylesean Onomastics: Games Names Play (Part 1)

Patrick O'Neill

2022-07-07 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–6

Review

Review of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021), edited by Paul Fagan, John Greaney and Tamara Radak.

Review of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021), edited by Paul Fagan, John Greaney and Tamara Radak.

Bridget English

2022-07-04 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–6