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Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colorful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh l, and Myles na Gopaleen (aka Flann O'Brien), but it is also a clear-eyed and bracing antidote to the kitsch that passes for literary history and memory in the Dublin of today. Cronin writes...

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Since the original version of Anthony Cronin's classic sequence, The End of the Modern World, first appeared in 1989, it has been acclaimed as one of the most singular achievements in twentieth-century Irish poetry.

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During his all-too-brief lifetime, Flann O'Brien was read by a small but fanatically faithful coterie of readers, including James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Graham Greene, and William Saroyan. He is one of the most difficult writers to pin down, partly or primarily as a result of his having carefully carved himself into three people, all of whom he used, when necessary, to hide behind. As Flann O'Brien he wrote several novels that for their technica...

Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Schriftsteller, schrieb Flann O'Brien, der hauptberuflich Ministerialbeamter war, ab 1940 unter dem Pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen eine tägliche Trost-&-Rat-Kolumne in der »Irish Times«, und niemand von seinen Freunden und schon gar nicht von seinen Kollegen ahnte, dass der Beamte Brian O'Nolan auch der Schriftsteller Flann O'Brien und der scharfe, witzige Kolumnist Myles na gCopaleen in einer Person war. Am 1. April 1...

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