An Beal Bocht
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1781176434
ISBN-13
9781781176436
Publisher
The Mercier Press
Imprint
The Mercier Press
Country of Manufacture
IE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 6th, 2018
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
148 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 12.90 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Brilliant satire on the Gaeltacht and lugubrious Gaeltacht memories.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, An Béal Bocht is a classic satire in Irish by one of the century’s great writers, Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O’Brien/Brian O’Nolan. This extremely funny book, with its rain-sodden peasants of Corca Dorcha who combine pretensions to proficiency in English with true caint na ndaoine in the hope of impressing the insatiable Irish-language enthusiasts, was the proof that the Irish of the Revival had come of age.
It earned Flann O’Brien the accolade bestowed upon him by Austin Clarke: ‘our Gaelic satirist’ and is still a useful corrective against the native tendency to take things too seriously. As its subtitle An Milleánach indicates, it satirises Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s famous Blasket autobiography An t -Oileánach as well as other Gaeltacht works like Caisleáin Óir by Donegal writer Séamus Ó Grianna (Máire).
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