The Poor Mouth

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The classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of At Swim-Two-Birds Flann OBrien.

Flann OBriens gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor Mouth tells the shamelessly ironic story of Bonaparte OCoonassa, born in the West of Ireland on a terrible winters night.

A hymn to the world of potatoes, rain and excellent poverty, this cruelly funny assault on the fashionable Gaelic Revival of the day brought the wrath of the custodians of national sentiment upon OBriens head for many years thereafter.

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A Gaelic novel, all footnotes and authenticity, The Poor Mouth is OBriens practical joke. Hugely and unfairly funny

Anyone who has read the Blasket writers, cocked a pained ear to Peig Sayers or waded through the novels of Mire, will delight in the cruel accuracy of The Poor Mouth

A wonderful romp amongst the unspeakable stereotypes of Irishry

Along with Joyce and Beckett, Flann OBrien constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers

Author Bio

Flann OBrien was one of the many pseudonyms of Brian ONolan, author of the classic novel At Swim-Two-Birds and, under the name Myles na Gopaleen, writer of a celebrated satirical column in the Irish Times which appeared daily for almost thirty years. Highly praised by Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, amongst others, OBrien is regarded as one of the great comic writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1966.