Volume 22, Number 7 · May 1, 1975
Gael in Wonderland
By Karl Miller
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About a Hard Life
by Flann O'Brien, translated by Patrick C. Power
Viking, 128 pp., $7.95
The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
Picador, 200 pp., 60p (paper)
What, and where, is Gaelic? It is a language which has long been spoken, and which is still spoken, in three different forms, in western communities of the British Isles, and the literature of that language has not ceased. In the rest of Britain and in America, a descent from Gaelic stock is common enough: nevertheless, in these quarters, the language and the literature are barely acknowledged to exist.
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