Joe Brooker joins the Flann 100 celebrations
Joe Brooker joins the Flann 100 celebrations at Trinity College Dublin to celebrate the Irish writer, Flann O'Brien.
Joe Brooker, Reader in Modern Literature at Birkbeck, travelled to Trinity College Dublin to participate in Flann 100, a weekend of events marking this October's centenary of the Irish writer Flann O'Brien. The weekend commenced with a lecture from Irish Times assistant editor Fintan O'Toole, and also included an academic day conference and a series of panels and readings - all free to the wider public. As the author of a book on Flann O'Brien, Joe was part of a closing panel that also featured Ireland's eminent man of letters Anthony Cronin.
Joe, currently teaching a BA course on James Joyce's Ulysses, reflects: 'Several centenary events have been held this year, but this weekend was of particular importance as it belonged to Dublin, where Flann O'Brien lived all his adult life. Trinity is a stone's throw from the old offices of the Irish Times, in whose pages he published for a quarter-century. The other really distinctive thing about the weekend was its combination of scholarship with public access and discussion - the audience was not just academic, but included many Dubliners who continue to appreciate their most coruscatingly comic writer.'
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