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Notes
Poet Brendan Kennelly on Myles na gCopaleen, pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan. His 1941 darkly comic novel An Béal Bocht, translated as The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien, is equally a satire on the Irish as it is about the universal awfulness of being poor. From the 1975/76 'Pleasure of Gaelic Literature' series.