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Toby and Oisín, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, explore him as a paternal figure, accomplished joiner and member of a formidable Northern family: voracious intellectuals, inventors and eccentric or ‘ex-centros’ builders of the Irish republic.

Paul and Toby explore human and nonhuman worlds in An Béal Bocht, the politics of Flann O’Brien’s comedy, the history of the International Flann O’Brien Society and Paul’s interest in hoaxes. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Toby: Welcome everyone to another episode of Radio Myles, the podcast poised between the pub and peer

 Toby interviews Frank McNally, writer of ‘An Irish Diary’ for the Irish Times, about Brian O’Nolan as a journalistic influence, and as a man. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Toby: Welcome to Radio Myles, a podcast designed to entertain, intrigue, and maybe change your perspective on Flann O’Brien, aka Myles na gCopaleen, aka

In this episode Toby speaks to Julieta Abella, an Argentinian scholar working on Irish modernism who can explain the seemingly strange transatlantic connection between Flann O’Brien and Jorge Luis Borges – and much more besides. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on on Google Podcasts Toby: Hey, everyone, and welcome to another episode

In this episode, the editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien shares a new recording of the voice of Brian O’Nolan – only the second time in history we have been able to hear his voice.

Renowned O’Nolan scholar Maebh Long shares an unpublished draft of the famous manifesto in At Swim-Two-Birds and reaches a surprising conclusion about the legacy of Flann O’Brien. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on Google Podcasts Toby: Hello and welcome to another episode of Radio Myles. I’m your host, Toby Harris, and this

Toby asks a leading expert: who was Flann O’Brien? The answer involves pseudonyms, rarely heard first-hand accounts and a legendary editor of the Irish Times.

How do we understand The Third Policeman’s atomic theory? Toby and Einat find out via Descartes, the anti-materialism of Leibniz & Berkeley, and 20th century physics. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Music Listen on Google Podcasts Toby: Hello and welcome to another episode of Radio Myles with me, your host, Toby Harris. This podcast

Toby and a Chicago writer discuss how Flann inspires him. They explore the soft lunacy of books, the uses of bureaucratic jargon and the life of moonlighting writers