Graveyard Clay: CRE na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters): Cré na Cille - Hardcover

"[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant."--William Brennan, New Yorker
"A cause for celebration."--Jan Gardner, Boston Globe
"Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of O Cadhain's most famous book is gloriously attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the original Cre na Cille."--Patricia Craig, Times Literary Supplement
"Corrosively satirical and darkly comic. . . . A tour de force of a gabfest. . . . Those who wish to get as close to the original as possible will undoubtedly favor Graveyard Clay."--Mark Harman, Los Angeles Review of Books
"The bitingly sarcastic, and hilarious, drumbeat of dialogue . . . is counterpointed by lyrical sections . . . [A] great book."--Frank Freeman, University Bookman
"Likely to be praised by readers who are familiar with the original Irish text . . . [and] to encourage readers to seek out Cré na Cille in Irish."--Margaret Kelleher, Breac
"[This] raucously successful new translation . . . conveys the spirituous brio of Ó Cadhain's original . . . Graveyard Clay is an unforgettably disconcerting work."--Killian Quigley, MAKE Literary Magazine
Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association's tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work.
"A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain's masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple."--Declan Kiberd
"This is a wonderful translation. Mac Con Ionmaire and Robinson provide a meticulously faithful rendering of Ó Cadhain's rich Conamara Irish while at the same time capturing the raucous, rabelaisian humor of his classic novel."--Philip O'Leary, Irish Studies Program, Boston College

Mairtin O Cadhain (1906-70) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and a giant among twentieth-century authors. Liam Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer, broadcaster, translator, and biographer. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. Tim Robinson is a writer, artist, and cartographer. He lives in Roundstone, Ireland.