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The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille

By Mairtin O Cadhain, Alan Titley (Translator)
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By Mairtin O Cadhain, Alan Titley (Translator)
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The original English—language translation of Ó Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille, which Colm Tóibín has called the “greatest novel to be written in the Irish language”

“An audacious novel rendered entirely in dialogue . . . [with] hilarious quarrels and devastating put—downs that reflect O’Cadhain’s finely attuned ear for the nimble language of his people. He does not judge their time—wasting pettiness, so much as he celebrates the flaws that make us so tragically, wonderfully, hum...

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