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Saighdiúir

Name: Saighdiúir
Author: Cathal Ó Searcaigh
ISBN: 9781913814359

by Cathal Ó Searcaigh

ISBN: 9781913814359

Published: 2023

Irish fiction

"Beneath the land of explosives and the constant rattle of cannons, we get a terrifying view of the war through the eyes of this young man from the Gaeltacht of Cloch Chionnaola, as he and his peers are thrown headlong into battle, poison gas scalding their lungs. , and the sod was reddened with their blood. Despite the thousands of Irish who fell in the great war of 1914-1918, there is little mention of them in Irish language literature. This is the first novel in the language that tells his story. Not only is Sajdiúir a ground-breaking work but it is a powerful anti-war novel, brought to light in a fresh and masterful way by Cathal Ó Searcaigh.For more than forty years, this great Conallach poet has been making his own distinctive mark on Irish literature. This new work is no exception, the same clean-cut style of prose that the Ghrianna family used before has been brought before us again with poetic flair by Ó Searcaigh, he has given the poet's care to the speech of the common...

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