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An Béal Bocht - Paperback

by Myles Na Gcopaleen
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Availability:In StockContributor:Myles Na GcopaleenPublish date:2018-07-06Pages:130
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Mercier PressISBN-13:9781781176436ISBN-10:1781176434UPC:9781781176436Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, Cultural HeritageSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCXN68BWR0

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, An B al 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 Mille nach indicates, it satirises Tom s Criomhthain's famous Blasket autobiography An t-Oile nach as well as other Gaeltacht works like Caisle in ir by Donegal writer S amus Grianna (M ire).




Languages:EnglishPublisher:Mercier PressISBN-13:9781781176436ISBN-10:1781176434UPC:9781781176436Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Satire, Cultural HeritageSize:7.81 x 5.06 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.29Product ID:SCXN68BWR0
Na Gcopaleen, Myles: - Myles na gCopaleen (aka Flann O'Brien) was born Brian O'Nolan in Strabane in 1911. He began to write as a student at University College Dublin. Thereafter he worked as a civil servant. He wrote a regular tri-weekly column called 'The Cruiskeen Lawn' for The Irish Times for twenty-five years from the early 1940s. In this he made his name as a satirist, writing originally in Irish, then more and more in English. His claim to literary fame rests mainly on two post-modernist works in English, At-Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and the posthumous The Third Policeman (1967).
Publisher: Mercier Press

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