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Tomás Ó Criomhthain

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contribution to Gaelic literature

  • St. Columba
    In Celtic literature: The Gaelic Revival

    …the best of these is Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s An tOileánach (1929; The Islandman). At one time the Gaeltacht memoirs threatened to become a vogue and inspired the brilliant satirical novel An Béal Bocht (1941; The Poor Mouth) by Flann O’Brien (pseudonym of Brian Ó Nualláin).

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