An Beal Bocht - Softcover

A classic satire in Irish by one of the century's great writers, Myles na gCopleen, also known as Flann O'Brien.

Myles na gCopaleen (aka Flann OBrien) was born Brian ONolan in Strabane in 1911. He began to write as a student at University College Dublin. Thereafter he worked as a civil servant. He wrote a regular tri-weekly column called The Cruiskeen Lawn for The Irish Times for twenty-five years from the early 1940s. In this he made his name as a satirist, writing originally in Irish, then more and more in English. His claim to literary fame rests mainly on two post-modernist works in English, At-Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and the posthumous The Third Policeman (1967). He died of cancer in 1966.