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An Druma Mor, Seosamh Mac Grianna's famous novel, is set in a small Donegal village and explores the clash of local pride with nationalist politics, through the story of the demise of the local pipe and drum band, whose most prized possession is a drum very like a Lambeg. In fact, it is fascinating how the work prefigures the images of Frank Mc Guinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, in which the big drum beats out the pride of a local area, until its drummer is silenced by another brand of nationalism.
Is é is ábhar don úrscéal seo achrann a tharla faoi bhanna ceoil – an Druma Mór – i mbaile cladaigh i Rosa Thír Chonaill go luath sa chéad seo. Ba le pobal daoine, i gcomhar le chéile, na gléasraí ceoil, agus roghnaítí na seinnteoirí ar a gcumas gach Féile Pádraig le clú an bhaile a sheasamh sa mhórshiúl bhliantúil.
Thug eagraíocht pholaitiúil iarraidh seilbh a fháil ar an bhanna, mar chomhartha ar a gceannasaíocht féin, agus spreagadh fear uaillmhianach a fáisceadh as cruatan an tsaoil leis na Sons of St Patrick a bhunú leis an Druma Mór a chosaint orthu. Léiríonn Mac Grianna an choimhlint idir filiúntacht agus saoltacht an duine as cúrsaí cointinneacha an bhanna, agus éiríonn leis siombail an dúchais a dhéanamh den Druma Mór.
PAPERBACK EDITION, 1981 reprint by An Gúm /Oifig an tSolatháir, originally published 1969, bump to lower edge of spine at rear ( see photo)
