{"title":"Review of Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (2021), edited by Paul Fagan, John Greaney and Tamara Radak.","authors":"B. English","doi":"10.16995/pr.9153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.9153","url":null,"abstract":"Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities is a thought-provoking and field-expanding intervention in Irish modernist studies and one which will prove hugely profitable to students and scholars alike. The collection’s inclusion of a variety of theoretical conceptions of the body and other media like comics, offers perspectives that expand the field of Irish modernism.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132277930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Garvin and Brian O’Nolan in Civil Service","authors":"Joseph LaBine, T. Harris","doi":"10.16995/pr.6569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.6569","url":null,"abstract":"This essay on John Garvin (1904–1986) is an attempt to re-connect Garvin to O’Nolan studies, which will afford a better understanding of Garvin’s place within O’Nolan’s circle, and thus helps to contextualize their collaboration and shared interests. John Garvin was Brian O’Nolan’s immediate superior in the Irish civil service. Garvin read a manuscript copy of At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and furnished O’Nolan with a Greek quotation from Euripides’s Heracles for its epigraph. We contend that Garvin’s reading of At Swim is insightful and places the novel within an anti-epic tradition, as implied by his choice of “for all things go out and give place to one another” (translated by John Garvin, Myles 58). Garvin also wrote James Joyce’s Disunited Kingdom (1976), a monograph that mentions collaborating with O’Nolan and the similarity between Finnegans Wake and Flann O’Brien’s fiction. These textual coordinates support a growing understanding of the social production of the cultural artefact celebrated as “Flann O’Brien” and “Myles na gCopaleen.” Debates with Garvin about fiction and Joycean modernism inside the corridors of the Custom House intersect in O’Nolan’s writing and this essay traces those discussions through Garvin and O’Nolan’s personal correspondence, Garvin’s published works, archival sources and newspaper articles. ","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124126228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bureaucratic Sorceries in The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives on Magic and Officialdom","authors":"Alexandra Irimia","doi":"10.16995/pr.7662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.7662","url":null,"abstract":"The history ofanthropological discourse retraces a long and subtle thread of analogiesbetween the seemingly disparate worlds of bureaucracy and magic, from BronisławMalinowski (as early as 1922) to Graham Jones (2017), passing through the worksof Claude Lévi-Strauss, Stanley Tambiah,Michael Herzfeld, and David Graeber. A complex dialectic of enchantment anddisenchantment involving experiments with the dynamics of reason and unreasonis also a recurrent motif in the Western literary tradition of bureaucratic andanti-bureaucratic narratives. What enables and justifies a comparison betweenthe irrational nature of magical thinking and a social form of systematization,regulation, and control, famously described by Max Weber as being primarilyguided by an effort of rationalization? The article provides an overview ofseveral possible answers to this question, illustrated with examples from FlannO’Brien’s TheThird Policeman.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125379293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mylesean Onomastics: Games Names Play","authors":"P. O'Neill","doi":"10.16995/pr.8440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.8440","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines Brian O'Nolan's fascination with names as they appear in a selection of his major works.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"7 Suppl 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115265114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mylesean Titles: Intertextual Pleasures","authors":"Patrick O’Neill","doi":"10.16995/pr.8444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.8444","url":null,"abstract":"Since the particular titles assigned to literary texts always implicitlychallenge readers to find ways of making them as interesting a component aspossible of the literary experience, readers are encouraged to identify as soonas possible what may seem to be the most appropriate approach to the text – eventhough the particular approach chosen may quite often turn out to be seriously inadequateor even quite wrong-headed. Translated titles may of course encourage asignificantly different approach. The present discussion focuses, first, onreaders' likely reactions to the original titles of the works of Brian O'Nolan,alias Flann O'Brien, alias Myles na gCopaleen, and, second, on the likelyreactions of target-language readers to the titles of some fifty translationsof those same works in a range of European languages.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123461301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“F___ the County Council”: Local Government and Biopolitical Allegory in Flann O’Brien.","authors":"John Conlan","doi":"10.16995/pr.6570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.6570","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with Brian O'Nolan's role as a civil servant in the Irish Department of Local Government and Public Health. Here, references to local government and the ambiguity of the law in Cruiskeen Lawn and The Third Policeman are placed in their proper historical context. From an examination of the local government and local justice systems (from the pre-independence era to the Free State its successor administrations) a portrait emerges of O'Nolan as a writer of Irish biopolitics, who is concerned always with relationship between local and state forms of power. This essay situates the biopolitical themes of the author's writing within the context of recent scholarly writing about the law, sovereignty, and the body in O'Nolan, and gives examples of formative episodes in the incubation of his style of political allegory. From local issues of land redistribution to O'Nolan's role as secretary to the Tribunal of Inquiry of the Cavan Orphanage fire, a new image can be constructed of the author as a theorist of biopolitical life and what Giorgio Agamben terms the 'state of exception.'","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117211665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editors' Note","authors":"Elliott Mills, Jonathan Foster","doi":"10.16995/pr.8883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.8883","url":null,"abstract":"This note from the guest editors of the special issue on Brian O'Nolan and the Irish Civil Service introduces the topic to be explored in the journal edition, whilst it also sets out some key points on why the theme of bureaucracy should be more closely considered in O'Nolan criticism. At the same time, the editorial sketches out some aspects of the current political and cultural context in which we approach the bureaucrat as a topic of discussion. Calling into attention certain important critical interventions on the question of how writers operate when they are at the same time state functionaries, this editorial sets the stage for O'Nolan to be re-considered as a 'writer-official'. Introducing the contributing essays which will make up the special issue, the editorial points towards how the contributors taken on such a task of critical re-orientation. ","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"97 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128002017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A distasteful milieu”: Brian O’Nolan and the civil service 1935-51.","authors":"M. Maguire","doi":"10.16995/pr.4748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.4748","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines what Brian O'Nolan described as the ‘distasteful milieu’ of the civil service, contextualizing O’Nolan’s career as a civil servant that paralleled his career as a writer. The civil service and officialdom are a growing presence in his writings, especially in Cruiskeen Lawn where Myles na gCopaleen speaks on behalf of the increasingly bitter civil servant, Brian O’Nolan.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121756980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note: Reflections on the First Decade of the International Flann O’Brien Society","authors":"P. Fagan","doi":"10.16995/pr.8367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.8367","url":null,"abstract":"2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of both the International Flann O’Brien Society and its peer-reviewed journal The Parish Review. The work that has been undertaken by the society and its members in this decade has significantly expanded the scope and profile of Flann O’Brien studies, but also changed how we understand the author Brian O’Nolan and his works in their historical, social, political, cultural, and aesthetic contexts, as well as their legacy to contemporary letters and theory.This note uses the occasion of this anniversary to take stock of these changes and to consider what avenues lie open to the future of the field.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123442363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Perspectives on the Theme of Distance: Report on 110 Myles: Flann O’Brien at a Distance, An Online Symposium, 26‒28 July 2021","authors":"Mina M. Đurić,","doi":"10.16995/pr.8369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/pr.8369","url":null,"abstract":"Report on the 110 Myles: Flann O’Brien at a Distance online Symposium, 26‒28 July 2021.","PeriodicalId":279786,"journal":{"name":"The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133714362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}