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Fonn a Níos Fiach
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Fonn A Níos Fiach:110 pp; hardcover; ISBN 978-1-911363-44-6
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Fonn A Níos Fiach is a novella, based on folklore from Dúiche Sheoigheach. Out of his own works, this is the author’s favourite.
A Tense, Emotive Telling, with a Sense of Wilderness
This is a tense, emotive telling, with the sense of wilderness throughout. It would remind you of ‘The Old Man and thr Sea’ by Hemingway, but in this case it was hunger and the famine, and not heroism, that drove this man to hunt.
In a sumptuous new hardback edition, Pádraig Ua Maoileoin’s 1978 classic, a master-work of 20th Century Irish literature, regfains its rightfiul place on the bookshelf.
A Hunt Takes on Heroic Proportions
In beautiful clear prose, this short novel tells the story of one man’s hunger-driven hunt in the snows of South Kerry in the first winter of the Great Famine. As the hunter persists in his search for the elusive hare and his situation becomes more desperate, his hunt takes on heroic proportions. Often compared to The Old Man and the Sea, Fonn a Níos Fiach surpasses Hemmingway’s classic.
‘Dob fhéidir an argóint a dhéanamh gurb é seo an saothar is fearr ar fad dá chuid is, dá bhrí sin, ní hé hamháin go bhfuil sé le háireamh i measc mhórshaothair phróis Chorca Dhuibhne ach i measc mhór-úrscéalta Gaeilge na fichiú haoise trí chéile … Ardphléisiúr léitheoireachta.’ — Breandán Ó Cróinín, COMHAR.
‘Noibhile is ea Fonn a Níos Fiach agus tá a rian san air ó thús deireadh ar a fháiscthe agus a fhuinte is atá an scríbhneoireacht agus éirim an scéil. D’fhéadfá a rá gur shroich Peaidí an Dúna barr feabhais lena cheard anso, agus go deimhin féin tá sé ar cheann de na leabhartha Gaeilge is fearr dá bhfuil againn … Tá Leabhar Breac le moladh as an leagan nua so … a chur fé bhráid an phobail arís agus deis a thabhairt do léitheoirí nua na Gaeilge a shaibhreas agus a íogaireacht a trhástáil. Cuireann sé Pádraig Ó Maoileoin thar n-ais ar an stáitse atá tuiltte aige.’ — FEASTA.
Aimsir gheimhridh atá ann agus is fuar fuar an mhá leathan agus an cnoc ar a bhfuil an lorg. Mar sin, ar barra, is scéal seilge atá ann ach fásann níos leithne ná sin go samhlaíonn Seán gur ‘oilithreacht’ atá ann, oilithreacht faoina anam … B’fhéidir gurb é seo an saothar is ealaíonta a scríobh Pádraig Ua Maoileoin, agus más mian leat é a léamh b’fhearr a dhéanamh sa tsamhradh agus gan aon chuimhneamh a bheith agat ar ghiorria ná ar choinín féin a bheith agat i gcomhair an dinnéir. — Alan Titley, Tuairisc.ie
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