{"product_id":"an-beal-bocht-9781781176436","title":"An Béal Bocht","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, \u003ci\u003eAn Béal Bocht\u003c\/i\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.  \u003cbr\u003e  It 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 \u003ci\u003eAn Milleánach \u003c\/i\u003eindicates, it satirises Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s famous Blasket autobiography \u003ci\u003eAn t-Oileánach\u003c\/i\u003e as well as other Gaeltacht works like \u003ci\u003eCaisleáin \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eÓir\u003c\/i\u003e by Donegal writer Séamus Ó Grianna (Máire).","brand":"The Mercier Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52085517549911,"sku":"9781781176436","price":14.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781176436.jpg?v=1762209804","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-beal-bocht-9781781176436","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}