A number of recent online lectures on Flann O'Brien have been uploaded to YouTube and we're happy to collect them here for your viewing pleasure.
"A distasteful milieu": Brian O'Nolan and the civil service, 1935–53
A talk by Martin Maguire, Visiting Research Fellow at the TCD Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History
November 27, 2020
A recording of Martin Maguire's keynote talk at the online workshop, "Bureaucratic Poetics: Brian O'Nolan and the Irish Civil Service", which details O'Nolan's trajectory as a civil servant
Flann O'Brien in Wonderland
A Talk by Paul Fagan of the International Flann O' Brien Society
April 1, 2021
Paul Fagan addresses the Lewis Carroll Society on the influence of Alice in Wonderland on the strange times of Cruiskeen Lawn and The Third Policeman
The Lives of Brian
A talk by Frank McNally, The Irish Times
April 8, 2021
Frank McNally details "The Many Lives of Flann O'Brien" as part of the Tower Museum series "An Introduction to Flann O'Brien: A Man of Mystery"
Flann O'Brien & The Strabane Connection
A talk by Michael Kennedy, Strabane Historian
May 13, 2021
Michael Kennedy traces "Flann O'Brien & The Strabane Connection", with lots of historical information about Strabane and the Ó Nualláin family's roots there
