Flann O'Brien: Going

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“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

Flann O'Brien book At Swim-Two-Birds

Source: At Swim-Two-Birds

“When things go wrong and will not come right”

Flann O'Brien book The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“If Irish were to die completely, the standard of English here, both in the spoken and written word, would sink to a level probably as low as that obtaining in England and it would stop there only because it could go no lower.”

Page 283
The Best of Myles (1968)

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.”

Source: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 22.