Graveyard Clay

Cré na Cille

Mairtin O Cadhain

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Yale University
02 May 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters

A brilliant new translation of O Cadhain's modern Irish literature masterpiece, meant to spark debate and comparison with Alan Titley's Dirty Dust, now with bonus materials on its history, reception, interpretations, adaptations, and more.

In critical opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O Cadhain's Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cre na Cille is the shared project of two fluent speakers of the Irish of O Cadhain's native region, Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. They have achieved a lofty goal: to convey O Cadhain's meaning accurately and to meet his towering literary standards.

Graveyard Clay is a novel of black humor, reminiscent of the work of Synge and Beckett. The story unfolds entirely in dialogue as the newly dead arrive in the graveyard, bringing news of recent local happenings to those already confined in their coffins. Avalanches of gossip, backbiting, flirting, feuds, and scandal-mongering ensue, while the absurdity of human nature becomes ever clearer.

This edition of O Cadhain's masterpiece is enriched with footnotes, bibliography, publication and reception history, and other materials that invite further study and deeper enjoyment of his most engaging and challenging work.

By: Mairtin O Cadhain
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780300227062
ISBN 10: 030022706X
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mairtin O Cadhain (1906-70) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and a giant among twentieth-century authors. Liam Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer, broadcaster, translator, and biographer. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. Tim Robinson is a writer, artist, and cartographer. He lives in Roundstone, Ireland.

Reviews for Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille

A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of O Cadhain's masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple. --Declan Kiberd This is a wonderful translation. Mac Con Ionmaire and Robinson provide a meticulously faithful rendering of O Cadhain's rich Conamara Irish while at the same time capturing the raucous, rabelaisian humor of his classic novel. --Philip O'Leary, Irish Studies Program, Boston College