Often mentioned in the same breath as works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, Ó Cadhain’s novel is, in some ways, even more radically experimental. For starters, all the characters are dead and speaking from inside their coffins…
The Millions reviews Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s modernist classic ‘Cré na Cille’ (The Dirty Dust), now available in English for the first time.