The Poor Mouth

Title: The Poor Mouth
Author: Flann O'Brien
ISBN: 9781628975765
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1679727

Publisher Description:

The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.