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Flann O'Brien At War: Myles na gCopaleen 1940-1945 (Amazon.co.uk)

The latest publication of the Irish Times columns of arch satirist Brian O'Nolan aka Flann O'Brien aka Myles na gCopaleen. Editor John Wyse Jackson has sifted through some 3,000 columns, written over a quarter of a century, to make a collection from the WWII period. The books bursts with Myles' various campaigns - his second-smoke business, cartwheels for bumpy roads, his battle against cliche, his talk of controlling the use of shamrock, and his plans for moving Ireland to a better geographical situation (the Mediterranean) and his concern that, in Ireland, modesty can be a vice. Flann fans who have previously devoured *The Best of Myles*, and the other volumes of Mylesian invective will be more than happy with *Flann O'Brien At War*.

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