The poor mouth
Subtitle: a bad story about the hard life
By: by Flann O'Brien ; translated by Patrick C. Power ; illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Normal, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Poor -- Fiction.; Ireland -- Fiction.
Description: "The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs.

A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941."--BOOK JACKET.