Description

Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) used not just a new title (George Knowall) for these seldom seen items, but additionally a new identity. Composing his line 'Bones of Competition' for the Nationalist and Leinster Times, he took on the character of the quizzical and enquiring humorist who may be discovered in a reputable public home in Carlow: erudite, urbane and informative, he's the country cousin of the Myles of Dublin, however nevertheless an aspect of the complicated character who wrote The Third Policeman and At Swim-Two-Birds. His enjoy words, his uncanny capability to look out of humbug, are unmatched. Authors as disparate as James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Graham Greene and Anthony Burgess have marvelled at his expertise.