Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille

The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille

Titley, Alan
O. Cadhain, Mairtin

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0300219822
ISBN13: 9780300219821
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Mar 22 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
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, human.--Dan Barry, New York Times Book Review

Máirtín Ó Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of Ó Cadhain's original, at last brings the pleasures of this great satiric novel to the far wider audience it deserves.

In The Dirty Dust all characters lie dead in their graves. This, however, does not impair their banter or their appetite for news of aboveground happenings from the recently arrived. Told entirely in dialogue, Ó Cadhain's daring novel listens in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community. In the afterlife, it seems, the same old life goes on beneath the sod. Only nothing can be done about it--apart from talk. In this merciless yet comical portrayal of a closely bound community, Ó Cadhain remains keenly attuned to the absurdity of human behavior, the lilt of Irish gab, and the nasty, deceptive magic of human connection.

Also available from Yale University Press: Graveyard Clay, an annotated edition of Cré na Cille translated by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All