At Swim Two birds

"This extraordinary book was first published in 1939, and what is no less extraordinary is that it should have received so little attention at the time. The author's real name is Brian Nolan, and he is a distinguished Dublin journalist who has also written books in Irish... If I were a cultural dictator of England I would make At Swim-Two-Birds compulsory reading at all our universities." - Philip Toynbee, Observer