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b"Host Darach and Motherfocl\\xf3ir regular Si\\xfan share many obsessions, but the one they discuss on today's show is the writer Flann O'Brien\\u2026 also known as Myles na gCopeleen\\u2026 also known as Brian O'Nolan.\\n\\nAs a displaced Northerner, O'Nolan was an outsider in the Irish language word in the Free State, belonging to neither the official Gaeltachts nor the bourgeois Dublin revivalists. This - as well as the restrictions placed on published writings by civil servants - contributed to a body of writing that is broadly hilarious and subtly subversive, darkly bitter and wildly imaginative.\\n\\nDarach and Si\\xfan consider his lasting appeal, how he was the 1930s equivalent of a Twitter superstar and how parts of his journalism predict today's world of social networks.\\n\\nYou can check out Si\\xfan's fab as Gaeilge podcast Beo Ar \\xc9igean at https://www.rte.ie/gaeilge/beo-ar-eigean/\\n\\n--- \\n\\nContact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"