Ebook: Myles away from Dublin: being a selection from the column written for the Nationalist and Leinster times, Carlow, under the name of George Knowall

Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) adopted not only a new name (George Knowall) for these rarely seen pieces, but also a new persona. Writing his column 'Bones of Contention' for the Nationalist and Leinster Times, he took on the character of the quizzical and enquiring humorist who might be found in a respectable public house in Carlow: erudite, urbane and informative, he is the country cousin of the Myles of Dublin, yet still a facet of the complex character who wrote The Third Policeman and At SwimTwoBirds. His delight in words, his uncanny ability to see through humbug, a.