{"product_id":"an-beal-bocht","title":"An Béal Bocht","description":"\u003cp\u003eWidely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, \u003cem\u003eAn B al Bocht\u003c\/em\u003e is a classic satire in Irish by one of the century's great writers, Myles na gCopaleen\/Flann O'Brien\/Brian O'Nolan. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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. As its subtitle \u003cem\u003eAn Mille nach \u003c\/em\u003eindicates, it satirises Tom s   Criomhthain's famous Blasket autobiography \u003cem\u003eAn t-Oile nach\u003c\/em\u003e as well as other Gaeltacht works like \u003cem\u003eCaisle in  ir\u003c\/em\u003e by Donegal writer S amus   Grianna (M ire).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNa Gcopaleen, Myles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Myles na gCopaleen (aka Flann O'Brien) was born Brian O'Nolan in Strabane in 1911. He began to write as a student at University College Dublin. Thereafter he worked as a civil servant. He wrote a regular tri-weekly column called 'The Cruiskeen Lawn' for The Irish Times for twenty-five years from the early 1940s. In this he made his name as a satirist, writing originally in Irish, then more and more in English. His claim to literary fame rests mainly on two post-modernist works in English, At-Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and the posthumous The Third Policeman (1967).","brand":"Mercier Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525512139026,"sku":"9781781176436","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6fe7408b-e132-40cf-b345-41e461da0e67.jpg?v=1731224242","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-beal-bocht","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}