The Prison of Language: Brian O'Nolan, An Béal Bocht, and Language Determinism

Abstract

The article analyses the connection between the Irish language and English-language output of Brian O'Nolan / Flann O'Brien. It focuses mainly on the theme of language determinism, which is prominent both in the ideology of European language revivals and in the theories of post-modern thinkers.

Keywords

• Brian O'Nolan
• An Béal Bocht
• language determinism
• language revival