Flann O'Brien: Gallows humour

Ruben Borg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to Gallows humour, he co-edited two volumes on Flann O'Brien for Cork University Press: Contesting Legacies (with Paul Fagan and Werner Huber: 2014), and Problems with Authority (with Paul Fagan and John McCourt: 2017).Paul Fagan is Senior Scientist at Salzburg University, as well as a Lecturer at the University of Vienna and co-founder of the Vienna Irish Studies and Cultural Theories Summer School. As well as co-editing the Cork University Press collections Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies (2014) and Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority (2017), Fagan is a co-founder of the International Flann O'Brien Society and is presently completing a monograph on the Irish Literary Hoax Tradition.