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Brien Flann O: The Poor Mouth [1993] paperback Condition:Good it charts the development ofThe classic satire from the renowned comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim Two Birds' Flann O'Brien. Flann O'Brien's gloriously wicked satire of the traditional Irish peasant novel, The Poor Mouth tells the shamelessly ironic story of Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in the West of Ireland 'on a terrible winter's night'. A hymn to the world of potatoes, rain and 'excellent poverty', this cruelly funny assault on the fashionable Gaelic Revival of the day