The dirty dust
Subtitle: crè na cille
By: Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; Translated from Irish by Alan Titley
Contributors: Titley, Alan, translator
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780300198492
Subjects: Cemeteries; Fiction
Work titles: Cré na cille
Description: 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.
Notes: "Originally published in Irish as CrÈ na Cille. Copyright © 1949 by Sirsel agus Dill."