Catherine Flynn

The idea that journalism should ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable’ belonged to Irish American writer Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), creator of the comic political commentator, the Roscommon barman ‘Mr. Dooley’. Barely overlapping with Dunne’s career was the life of another great newspaper columnist, ‘Myles na Gopaleen’ (Brian O’Nolan). In this talk Dr. Catherine Flynn of UC Berkeley brings together these two great Irish humorous voices.