An Béal Bocht le Myles na gCopaleen

Drochscéal ar an drochshaol curtha in eagar ag Myles na gCopaleen. Ar cheann de na leabharthaí is cáiliúla agus is greannmhaire ón scríbhneoir iomráiteach Brian Ó Nualláin/Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen, is scigaithris iontach é seo ar go leor i saol na Gaeilge agus na Gaeltachta.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century, An Béal Bocht is a classic satire in Irish by one of the century’s great writers, Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O’Brien/Brian O’Nolan. 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 Milleánach indicates, it satirises Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s famous Blasket autobiography An t-Oileánach as well as other Gaeltacht works like Caisleáin Óir by Donegal writer Séamus Ó Grianna (Máire).