Happy Birthday Flann O'Brien

For all lovers of comic prose and the surreal, this is a great day. The excellent and underrated comic writer Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) was born 100 years ago today. The above picture always reminds me of how men dressed in my childhood in the 1950's with the soft hat and the overcoat.

I hope to find time to (re) read his classics such as The Third Policeman, At Swim-Two Birds and the collection of his Irish Times pieces, The Best of Myles.

Try him and see what you think..............