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O’Nolan, Brian. [Myles Na Gopaleen, FLann O’Brien]
The Best of Myles.
Publisher: MacGibbon & Kee, London;
Date of Publication: 1968
Stock Code: 14181
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 400. Illustrated frontispiece by Sean O’Sulivan and line drawings by Eric Critchley within the text. Chocolate brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and matching brown top edge, in the original unclipped Chartreuse dust-jacket, illustrated by Eric Critchley. A small bump to the lower spine tip, the dust jacket spine is lightly sunned with some minor creasing to the dust-jacket edges. Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966), was an Irish civil servant, novelist, playwright and satirist, now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modern and post-modern literature, praised by James Joyce and Graham Greene amongst others. As a civil servant he was theoretically required to be apolitical hence the prolific pen names he, quite openly, used to pen his criticism of politics and politicians. His English language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, were written under his pen name Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish-language novel, An Béal Bocht, were written under the name Myles na Copaleen. This collection is considered the best of those columns. £40.00