Flann O'Brien was one of several pseudonyms of BrianO'Nolan (1911-1966), who is considered along with James Joyce andSamuel Beckett to be one of the greatest Irish writers of the twentiethcentury. His novels include At Swim-Two-Birds , The Poor Mouth , The Third Policeman , The Hard Life , and The Dalkey Archive . Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer in the EnglishProgramme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely onBrian O'Nolan/Flann O'Brien, and is the author of Assembling Flann O'Brien (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), an award-winning monograph of theoretical engagements with O'Nolan's works.