Publisher's Synopsis
Brian O'Nolan wrote the "Cruiskeen Lawn" column for the "Irish Times" from 1940 until his death in 1966 under the pen name of Myles na Gopaleen (normally translated as "Myles of the Little Horses". He also wrote under the name of Flann O'Brien. This is a collection of some of his wittiest work from the 1930s, before he became Myles of Cruiskeen Lawn, including anecdotes as student, as blatherer, as Irishman and as poet.;Other collections of his work include "The Best of Myles", "Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen Lawn" and "The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman".
