the Dirty Dust (Cre na Cille) - Mairtin O Cadhain

Hardback with dust cover
The greatest novel written in Irish
7 euro postage, which can be combined with other items

This long-awaited English-language translation
of Máirtin Ó Cadhain's raucous masterpiece is
a major international publishing event.

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

In The Dirty Dust all characters lie dead in
their graves. This, however, does not im-
pair their banter or their appetite for news
of aboveground happenings from the
recently arrived, Told almost 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 o beneath the sod.
Only nothing can be done about it-apart
from talk. In this merciless, comical,
and somehow tender portrayal of a closely
bound community, Ó Cadhain remains keenly attuned to the absurdity of human behaviour