
A working-class voice from the Irish language tradition: Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh
Written by Jenny Farrell
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Fiction
Jenny Farrell reviews Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha (Parthian, 2020) Awareness of working-class literature is only growing slowly in Ireland. This is not because it has not so far existed – far from it. Working-class people have known and cherished their tradition for a long…