Anti-Writer
Clair Wills: Plain Brian O’Nolan, 4 April 2019
The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,978 1 62897 183 5 Show More
edited by Maebh Long.
Dalkey Archive, 619 pp., £20, April 2018,
“... much myself that I refuse to let a set into my own house.’ O’Nolan’s difficulty was not, as Richard Hoggart argued of Britain in The Uses of Literacy (1957), that the culture of the industrial working class was being hollowed out by commerce, but that there was no industrial working class in Ireland to speak of. They were all living in Birmingham ... ”