Check out this hilarious, bewildering, wonderful @BBCRadio4 documentary on Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman by @StevenRajam. Featuring @watsoncomedian, @JFennellAuthor, @juliangough, @roisinkiberd, @ArtRiordan, @marcivanogorman and me!

💥Deadline Extension for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥 Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway) https://t.co/brzQq1Hf6E

Such an insightful review of Radio Myles by Zan Cammack

Start your new year by reading Thierry Robin’s new article on death, the uncanny valley and Flann O’Brien. Out now and open access on The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. https://t.co/n8D5VdYp5R

Christmas treat!

Get your abstracts in for "An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins”, The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference. This year we’re returning to Flann’s birthplace in Strabane 24-27th June 2025.

Roddy Doyle: I read Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds when I was 16. [...] It was an extraordinary experience, seeing what I heard every day on the page, and laughing at it because it was so funny and great. https://t.co/ucJBZMcsFF

The urgent question of "What happened to new episodes of the Radio Myles podcast??" is not one that anyone is asking Nevertheless, the explanation is that I have been working on finishing this, my first monograph! https://t.co/OIdtqrB4Lq

Looking forward to talking to modernists at @msatweet in Chicago about "The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism” out with @ColumbiaUP!

New special issue of Affirmations of the Modern, ed @SeanPryor17! 'Countermapping Modernism’ is guest-ed by Erin Carlston, Jacob Edmond and myself. Essays by @kirbybrown, @CaiLyons, @bj_etherington, and Paul K. Saint-Amour focus on Indigenous modernisms.

👉🏻Job alert!👈🏻Te Kura Toi School of Arts at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato University of Waikato is seeking two full-time Lecturers in English: One in Literature in English pre-1900 and one post-1900.

The mistaken identity that just won’t die!

🔥 New publication alert!🔥 "Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines”, edited by Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan and John Greaney is being launched @JamesJoyceCentr on 5 October. Register for your free tickets here:

I'm honoured to be continuing the wonderful work by @sonjatiernan and Peter Kuch, and privileged to be collaborating with @LiamMcIlvanney at @CissOtago. I look forward to serving the Irish community from @otago https://t.co/KhMWycE6aF

It was a long labour of love but it’s finally here. Use CUP20SM to get 20% off The Rise of Pacific Literature when you order from @ColumbiaUP. Buy a copy for your neighbour and your gran!

And Éibhear Walsh too? I’m so sad to hear of this.

Vale Edna O’Brien. ‘Faber, said she was “one of the greatest writers of our age”. “She revolutionised Irish literature, capturing the lives of women and the complexities of the human condition in prose that was luminous and spare’

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 "Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan & Aldous Huxley" 7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote Speakers: Maebh Long & Dana Sawyer Featured Speakers: Fagan, Dunaway, Poller, Harris Abstracts Deadline: 1 October 2024 Details: https://t.co/5NCmRpMtfr

It’s hard to know how to process Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard’s death, but Selina Tusitala Marsh’s raw, aching poem 'Poem for a Murdered Beloved Friend Murdered by a Friend’ gives voice to the hurt and confusion:

The first editon of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds for sale by @RareBooks_ie was owned by EDMUND CRISPIN. I have never coveted a book more. I should have known the man who created a detective called Gervase Fen read Flann. @FlannOBrienSoc

Books available to review. Email or DM to express interest. #irishstudies