An Béal Bocht

THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN IN THE IRISH LANGUAGE

 

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.