Bibliograph

The dirty dust, Crè na cille, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley

Type

Label

The dirty dust, Crè na cille, Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The dirty dust

Oclc number

890377680

Responsibility statement

Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley

Series statement

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Sub title

Crè na cille

Summary

In an Irish graveyard, the corpses are distracted by local jealousies and petty disputes assuming global importance. Their banter is full of news of above-ground happenings, received from the recently arrived. As we listen in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community, we learn that in the afterlife the same old life goes on beneath the sod

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