Keith Hopper, who works as a warden at St Clare’s and who also teaches on the Liberal Arts programme, has co-edited a new collection of the Flann O’Brien’s short fiction, which includes stories appearing in book form for the very first time. The anthology, entitled The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien, is published by Dalkey Archive Press (Illinois), and will be available later this month.
This collection gathers together an expansive selection of Flann O’Brien’s shorter fiction in a single volume. Including work originally published under several of the author’s pseudonyms (Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, Brother Barnabas, Lir O’Connor) and under the English and Irish versions of his own name (Brian O’Nolan, Brian Nolan and Brian Ó Nualláin), it features an inclusive selection of his most important short stories, as well as the text of his last unfinished novel, Slattery’s Sago Saga. Also included are new translations of several stories originally published in Irish, and some other rare pieces, now gathered in book form for the first time.
Dr Keith Hopper is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (revised edition 2009), and general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Filmseries (2001-2007). He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.
