The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents.

Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.

Author: Flann O'Brien
Translator: Patrick C. Power 
Illustrator: Ralph Steadman
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Page Count: 132pp
Size: 5.25 x 8.25
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: November 12, 2024
ISBN: 978-1628975765