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Graveyard clay = Cré na cille : a narrative in ten interludes /

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...

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Main Authors: Ó Cadhain, Máirtín (Author)
Group Author: Mac Con Iomaire, Liam (Translator); Robinson, Tim, 1935- (Translator); Ó Cadhain, Máirtín.
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Irish
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book
Subjects:
Cemeteries > Fiction.
Ireland > Fiction.
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.--
Item Description: "Originally published in Irish as Cré na cille. Copyright © 1949 by Sirsel agus Dill."--Title page verso.
Also published by Yale University Press under the title: The dirty dust / Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley. English translation ©2015. xviii, 308 pages ; 21 cm.
Carrier Form: xxxix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324).
ISBN: 9780300227062 (paperback) :
030022706X (paperback)
9780300203769 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0300203764 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Index Number: PB1399
CLC: I562.45
Call Number: I562.45/O111-1

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