Clúdach leabhair | book cover, An Béal Bocht

An Béal Bocht (Myles na gCopaleen)

€15.00

An Béal Bocht: graphic novel; 102 pp (ppback) 978-1-899922-87-1

First published in 1941, An Beal Bocht is the only of Flann O’Brien’s handful of novels written in Irish using the pen name Myles na gCopaleen. The novel was translated into English and published in 1973 as The Poor Mouth and has appeared in many other languages since.

Myles na gCopaleen’s classic An Béal Bocht in a stunning graphic novel format, adapted from the original by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh and superbly illustrated John McCloskey

Athchóiriú i bhfoirm úrscéil graifice (nó i bhfoirm coimice) le Colmán Ó Raghallaigh ar cheann de mhórleabhair na Gaeilge agus í maisithe ag an ealaíontóir John McCloskey. Is i bpáirt leis an leagan beochana den leabhar a rinneadh an t-úrscéal graifice seo.

A Classic of Irish Literature

Ón lá a foilsíodh i dtosach é sa bhliain 1941 tá cáil ar An Béal Bocht mar chlasaic i saol liteartha na hÉireann. Tá clú idirnáisiúnta bainte amach ag an údar as a shaothar i mBéarla ach níl aon dabht ná go bhfuil an leabhar seo ar cheann d’éachta liteartha Bhriain Uí Nuallaín (Myles na gCopaleenj).

Tá blas comhaimseartha fós ar an aoir aoibhinn ghreannmhar seo agus beocht úrnua anois ann sa leagan ealaíonta gleoite grafach seo ó Chló Mhaigh Eo. Ceann de mhórleabhair na Gaeilge í seo, bunaithe ar eagrán Bhreandáin Uí Chonaire den mhórshaothar, cóíirithe mar úrscéal graifice ag Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, agus é maisithe ag John McCloskey

Read about the writing process in The Parish Review