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

Maebh Long

Is It About a Typewriter? Brian O’Nolan and Technologies of Inscription

John Conlan

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

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

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


Part 2 of a double special issue of the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies (6.2 Fall 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.

Article

Brian Ó Nualláin and An Gúm

Brian Ó Nualláin and An Gúm

Brian E Ó Conchubhair

2022-12-19 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Bureaucratic Sorceries in The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives on Magic and Officialdom

Bureaucratic Sorceries in The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives on Magic and Officialdom

Alexandra Irimia

2022-12-22 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies • 1–21

Note

Myles na gCopaleen’s 'Column Bawn' in the Sunday Dispatch: Some Archaeological Notes

Myles na gCopaleen’s 'Column Bawn' in the Sunday Dispatch: Some Archaeological Notes

Pádraig Ó Méalóid

2022-12-21 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Mylesean Onomastics: Games Names Play (Part II)

Mylesean Onomastics: Games Names Play (Part II)

Patrick O'Neill

2022-12-20 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Just Doodling? Brian Ó Nualláin’s ‘Tribunal of Inquiry into the Fire at St Joseph’s Orphanage Cavan’ Notebook

Just Doodling? Brian Ó Nualláin’s ‘Tribunal of Inquiry into the Fire at St Joseph’s Orphanage Cavan’ Notebook

Christian Y. Dupont

2022-12-20 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

On Licensed Premises: Galloping Green Revisited

On Licensed Premises: Galloping Green Revisited

Thomas O'Grady

2022-12-20 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Review

Review of Flann O’Brien: Gallows Humour, edited by Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan

Review of Flann O’Brien: Gallows Humour, edited by Ruben Borg and Paul Fagan

John Conlan

2022-12-20 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Review of Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (2019), edited by Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng

Review of Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (2019), edited by Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng

John Greaney

2022-12-28 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Review of Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, And the Second World War (2018), by Anna Teekell

Review of Emergency Writing: Irish Literature, Neutrality, And the Second World War (2018), by Anna Teekell

Shinjini Chattopadhyay

2022-12-30 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Report

Flannagain in Far Amurikey: Report on the Sixth International Flann O’Brien Conference, Boston College, 6‒9 April 2022

Flannagain in Far Amurikey: Report on the Sixth International Flann O’Brien Conference, Boston College, 6‒9 April 2022

Joseph Nugent

2022-12-31 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2022 • Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies