Book description
Including 'The Brother', O'Brien's most lasting comic creation,
these are the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman, which first
appeared in Flann O'Brien's legendary column in The Irish Times as
shaggy dog stories -- always ending in a terrible pun -- that
demonstrate his extraordinary comic inventiveness. The Brother is the
quintessential Dubliner, an authority on every topic who always knows
best, and has become a loved Irish comic character and is the author
of the great ode to stout.
Flann O'Brien was a pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan (he also used the name
Myles na gCopaleen as a newspaper columnist). Born in County Tyrone he
spent most of his life in Dublin. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds,
The Third Policeman and The Hard Life.
