Review of Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O’Brien: An Saol Bocht by Brian Ó Conchubhair (Indreabhán: Leabhar Breac, 2025)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Myles na gCopaleen agus Flann O’Brien: An Saol Bocht is the first book-length biography of Flann O'Brien in over 30 years. Brian Ó Conchubhair has crafted a rigourously researched narrative that adds to our knowledge of O'Brien by incorporating new archival material. The scope of archival material and scholarly commentary included means that we now have a biography of Flann O'Brien equal in depth and length to those produced for other prominent Irish literary figures. Ó Conchubhair's work adeptly weaves together Irish and English-language sources to produce the most thorough exploration of O'Brien's life to date.
DOI: 10.16995/pr.25804
Author: Jonathan Eric O'Neill
Institutions: University of St. Thomas - Texas, Villanova University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415267300