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Flann O'Brien
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann1.jpgBrian O'Nolan/Brian Ó Nualláin was born 100 years ago this week. As the man behind Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, he could have been a celebrated national treasure - but he was far too radical for that
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann2.jpgInchicore - The O'Nolan's first Dublin home, where Brian (then aged five) lived at the time of the 1916 Rising
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann8.jpgBlackrock College. O'Nolan finished his secondary education here after the family moved to Blackrock
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann7.jpgNewman House - site of the UCD Physics Theatre and home to the literary and historical society (L&H). O'Nolan was a star of the L&H and, like James Joyce, ran unsuccessfully for auditor
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Flann O'Brien
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann5.jpgInstitute of Advanced Studies, Burlington Road. Headed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, it took a successful libel action against 'The Irish Times' over a joke in Cruiskeen Lawn
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann13.jpgFlann O'Brien reading in the Palace Bar circa 1945. Photograph: Hulton/Getty
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann11.jpgNearys Pub - a regular haunt
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann10.jpgDalkey, location of O'Nolan's last novel that was set in various locations including Vico Road
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann9.jpgMcDaids Pub, another literary haunt frequented by O'Nolan, Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, Anthony Cronin, and many others. Unofficial headquarters of John Ryan's literary journal 'Envoy'
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann12.jpgPalace Bar. Literary pub where The Irish Times editor held court and writers including O'Nolan and Patrick Kavanagh were sometimes commissioned.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann3.jpgBy 1944, Cruiskeen Lawn ('little brimming jug') had become what it would be for most of its 26-year run: the funniest English-language newspaper column anywhere
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann16.jpgDeep in conversation
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann15.jpgThe Irish Times offices (then on Westmoreland Street). Despite being its most famous visitor, O'Nolan was a rare presence, writing his columns mainly from home
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Flann O'Brien
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2011/10/flann14.jpgFlann O'Brien by his brother Micheál Ó Nualláin. Oil on canvas, 1948. Collection of Boston College, USA
