Just to be clear, when Flann says "they," she is referring to The Walking Dead's undead, aka zombies. And when she says "help them," she means assist their pursuit of that which they want: the eating ...

Here's a nice bit of literary serendipity: going through old college books recently, I came across The Dalkey Archive, Flann O'Brien's novel about nuclear physics, James Joyce's religious ...

October 5th will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the great comic geniuses, and one of the most inspired literary minds, of the twentieth century. He was born Brian O’Nolan in ...

A pint of plain is your only man. So any day in which Himself is in the news is a good day for us. As the "allegeds" in the foregoing sentence may indicate, a great deal of mystery still surrounds ...

Critical commentary took a while longer to catch up. The early to mid 1970s saw Anthony Cronin's rivetting account of the mid-century in Dublin literary life, Dead as Doornails; Anne Clissman's ...

The first Cruiskeen Lawn columns were written in Irish, a language both loved and spurned by the author, writes David Wheatley THERE IS a lot of silence and talking to oneself in Irish writing. In his ...