Alf MacLochlainn was born in Dublin in 1926, and studied at the University College before becoming director of the National Library of Ireland in 1949, where he helped compile the manuscript sources for the History of Irish Civilization. He is the author of Out of Focus and The Corpus of the Library: Stories and Novellas. He has served as chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland, trustee of the Chester Beatty Library, inaugural holder of the Visiting Chair of Irish Studies at Burns Library, Boston College (1991-1992), and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Literature. He lives in Galway.

MacLochlainn shows that he has not only nabbed much of the technique used by [Flann] O'Brien, but understood him thematically and, in the process, one-upped the master. -- The Recorder Alf MacLochlainn writes a very fine prose... The finest style I have encountered in any Irish writer in recent years. -- John Kelly

Alf MacLochlainn was born in Dublin in 1926, and studied at the University College before becoming director of the National Library of Ireland in 1949, where he helped compile the manuscript sources for the History of Irish Civilization. He is the author of Out of Focus and The Corpus of the Library: Stories and Novellas. He has served as chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland, trustee of the Chester Beatty Library, inaugural holder of the Visiting Chair of Irish Studies at Burns Library, Boston College (1991-1992), and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Literature. He lives in Galway.

MacLochlainn shows that he has not only nabbed much of the technique used by [Flann] O'Brien, but understood him thematically and, in the process, one-upped the master. -- The Recorder Alf MacLochlainn writes a very fine prose... The finest style I have encountered in any Irish writer in recent years. -- John Kelly

Alf MacLochlainn was born in Dublin in 1926, and studied at the University College before becoming director of the National Library of Ireland in 1949, where he helped compile the manuscript sources for the History of Irish Civilization. He is the author of Out of Focus and The Corpus of the Library: Stories and Novellas. He has served as chairman of the James Joyce Institute of Ireland, trustee of the Chester Beatty Library, inaugural holder of the Visiting Chair of Irish Studies at Burns Library, Boston College (1991-1992), and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Literature. He lives in Galway.

MacLochlainn shows that he has not only nabbed much of the technique used by [Flann] O'Brien, but understood him thematically and, in the process, one-upped the master. -- The Recorder Alf MacLochlainn writes a very fine prose... The finest style I have encountered in any Irish writer in recent years. -- John Kelly