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    No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien
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    No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien

    By Anthony Cronin

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    First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O’Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative. Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan) was born in Tyrone in 1911 and worked as a civil servant for many years. He also developed an alter ego, Myles na Gopaleen, whose saitrical column in the Irish Times soon acquired legendary status.

    At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, appeared in 1939 and was praised by James Joyce, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas and others. His second novel, The Third Policeman, failed to find a publisher at the time but has since been acknowledged as one of the most important novels to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century. With a foreword by acclaimed author Kevin Barry and striking redesign, No Laughing Matter is an undisputed classic of Irish literary biography.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Island Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9781848407152
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    • 3/5
      A balanced and thorough life story of one the under-rated greats. Not as beautiful as I had hoped, nor as funny. Worth it after you've read all of Flann/Myles/Brian.
    • 5/5
      it truly was no laughing matter. O'Nolan was as accident prone as Inspector Clue-so, except for the fact that it was real for him.