Description Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, An Bal Bocht is a classic satire in Irish by one of the century’s great writers. 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. 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, An Milleanach, indicates, it satirises Tomas Criomhthin’s famous Blasket autobiography An t-Oilenach as well as other Gaeltacht works like Caislein ir by Donegal writer Samus Grianna. Customers Also Liked Related products The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (Penguin Modern Classics) The Poor Mouth by Flann OBrien Bal na Piste le Fionntn de Brn Solo by Grinne O’Brien Reviews