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The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
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The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life

by Flann O'Brien

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Coruscating satire on the Gaeltacht and the Gaelic revival by a master of the genre. Why is he still relatively unknown in America? ( )
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An Béal Bocht

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First published in Gaelic in 1941 under the title "An Beal Bocht", this book was translated into English in 1973. A parody of the Gaelic peasant writings of the Irish revival, the book features Bonaparte O'Coonassa - who tells the story of his life. By the author of "The Dalkey Archive".

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