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Images on this conference website represent Flann O’Brien artifacts held by Burns Library. See the Flann O’Brien Papers finding aid for details. For more, visit our online exhibit, “Genius of Genre: The Pen Names and Personas of Flann O’Brien.”

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Flann O’Brien, hand-drawn map of Corkadoragha, ca. 1960?, box 3, folder 2, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

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Micheál Ó Nualláin, Interior of 4 Avoca Terrace, Blackrock, watercolor, 1948, box 27, folder 7, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds. London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939. From the library of Flann O’Brien with the author’s inscription, John J. Burns Library, PR6029 .N56 A8 1939b.
Brian Ó Nualláin, “Tribunal of Inquiry into the Fire at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Cavan,” notebook with doodles and report, undated [1943], box 5, folder 16, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Evelyn O’Nolan. Scrapbook of clippings of reviews of The Third Policeman, 1967-1968, box 16, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Micheál Ó Nualláin, Sketch of hat and coat, charcoal on paper, 1948, box 27, folder 6, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

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Micheál Ó Nualláin, Sketch of Flann O’Brien and Sean O’Sullivan at O’Rourke’s pub, pencil on paper, box 19, folder 8, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.

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Micheál Ó Nualláin, Sketch of typewriter and books, charcoal on paper, box 26, folder 13, Flann O’Brien Papers, MS.1997.027, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.