The Poor Mouth · A Bad Story About the Hard Life
- Authors
- O'Brien, Flann & Steadman, Ralph & Power, Patrick
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Tags
- poor , humour , humorous , satire , ireland - fiction , poor in literature , poor - fiction , poverty , ireland , classics
- ISBN
- 9781564780911
- Date
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.20 MB
- Lang
- en
The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa,born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in westernIreland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of itsresidents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, andthey share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathingsatire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head thefull wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irishlanguage and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.