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| The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life
| | Flann O'Brien
| The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa,
born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western
Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its
residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and
they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing
satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the
full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish
language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.
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