13. Joseph LaBine: Flann O'Brien and Radio
A special edition of the Radio Myles podcast dedicated to Joe and Toby's special edition of the Parish Review about Flann O'Brien and the radio.
Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast
Poised somewhere between the pub and peer review, this podcast will entertain, intrigue and perhaps change your perspective on the writer known variously as Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen and Brian O’Nolan.
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12. Elliott Mills: Brian, Myles and the Civil Service
Toby talks to Elliott about the fascinating ways in which Brian O’Nolan the bureaucrat manifests in the writing of Flann O’Brien and Myles na gCopaleen.
11. Katherine Ebury: Flann O’Brien, death and the law
Katherine and Toby dissect death in 'Two in One' before exploring Irish executions, reading Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and turning to Flann, the energy humanities, and the geological turn.
10. The Society in Strabane
In this guest edition of Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th International Flann O'Brien conference in Strabane.
9. Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders
Toby and Oisín, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, explore the writer as a paternal figure, an accomplished joiner and member of a formidable Northern family: voracious intellectuals, inventors and eccentric or
8. Paul Fagan: Under the skin of Flann O'Brien
Paul and Toby explore human and nonhuman worlds in An Béal Bocht, the politics of Flann O'Brien's comedy, the history of the International Flann O'Brien Society and Paul's interest in hoaxes.
7. Frank McNally: Myles and the Irish Times
Toby interviews Frank McNally, writer of An Irish Diary for the Irish Times, about Brian O’Nolan as a journalistic influence, and as a man.
6. Julieta Abella: When Jorge Luis Borges encountered Flann O'Brien
In this episode Toby speaks to Julieta Abella, an Argentinian scholar working on Irish modernism who can explain the seemingly strange transatlantic connection between Flann O’Brien and Jorge Luis Bor
5. Maebh Long, part 2: Technology and the voice of Flann O'Brien
In part 2 of this interview, Maebh and Toby talk about beginnings, originality, hustle and technology in Brian O'Nolan's life and work.
4. Maebh Long, part 1: Flann O’Brien, the anti-institutional institution
Renowned O’Nolan scholar Maebh Long shares an unpublished draft of the famous manifesto in At Swim-Two-Birds and delves into the nature of his collaborations.