• Micheál Ó Conghaile / Fourfront: Short Stories from the Irish (Large Paperback)

    • Micheál Ó Conghaile / Fourfront: Short Stories from the Irish (Large Paperback)

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    Despite the richness of the short story in Irish literature, there remains a relative absence of stories translated from the Irish. This collection of stories aims to help fill this gap. Micheal O Conghaile is one of Ireland's foremost contemporary Irish-language prose writers. His stories are filled with dissidents and rebels, protagonists who find themselves suddenly revealed as ""errata"" in someone else's master narrative. Padraic Breathnach is probably the most prolific short story writer in Irish, with over 150. The four included here show isolated individuals struggling against inherited authority structures, and they may tell us more than any sociologist about the destiny of community. Dara O Conaola's stories share a real generic affinity with that other favored form of Gaelic tradition, the lyric poem. Lastly, Alan Titley is probably best known as a novelist. Politically, his stories probably represent a more radical, subversive side, while his language reveals a linguistic virtuosity that verges on the carnivalesque.
     
     

     

     

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