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The Poor Mouth
The Poor Mouth was originally written in 1941 by a man with more pseudonyms then Diddy Puff Sean. Christened Brian O’Nolan and assuming the title Myles na gCopaleen for this particular book, for simplicity’s sake we’re going to refer to him by his most famous name: Flann O’Brien.
Deriving from the saying “to put on the poor mouth”, O’Brien’s work satirises the old Irish tales of Peig Sayers and Thomás Ó Criomhthain, whose autobiographies are so mundane that reading them may lead to wristslitting.
We spoke to Paul Lee who originally put the book to stage in 1989, and is reviving it 20 years later in The New Theatre.
Some book to play translations serve the story with a slight twist. A Picture of Dorian Gray shows 3 actors rehearsing a dramatic reading, while Dracula has been turned into a one-man play. Is this a direct adaptation?
Yes it’s pretty direct translation of the book. It’s an autobiographical story about an unfortunate character living in the West of Ireland. He opens the play and starts to explain his life, then we go back through his past, re-enacting pinnacle moments he has faced. The book is so well written it translated to stage seamlessly. The only difference is the use of vis
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An Béal Bocht
1941 Irish novel by Flann O'Brien
An Béal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) is a 1941 novel in Irish by Flann O'Brien, published under the pseudonym "Myles na gCopaleen". It is regarded as one of the most important Irish-language novels of the twentieth century. An English translation by Patrick C. Power appeared in 1973. Stan Gebler Davies wrote: "The Poor Mouth is wildly funny, but there is at the same time always a sense of black evil. Only O'Brien's genius, of all the writers I can think of, was capable of that mixture of qualities."[1]
Background
[edit]The book is a kindly parody of the genre of Gaeltacht autobiographies, such as Tomás Ó Criomhthain's autobiography An t-Oileánach (The Islandman), or Peig Sayers' autobiography Peig, which recounts her life, especially the latter half, as a series of misfortunes in which much of her family die by disease, drowning or other mishap. Books of this genre were part of the Irish language syllabus in the Irish school system and so were mandatory reading for generations of children from independence in 1921. O'Nolan was in fact a great admirer of An t-Oileánach, which is widely regarded as being the greatest work of the genre, but critic Declan Kiberd has noted how O'Nolan's admiration for a writer
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