''Mo Bhealach Féin'' (released 1940) is an autobiographical novel by
Irish
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Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
writer
Seosamh Mac Grianna
Seosamh Mac Grianna (20 August 1900 – 11 June 1990) was a writer from County Donegal. He was born into a family of poets and storytellers, which included his brothers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seán Bán Mac Grianna, in Rann na Feirste, County D ...
. Written in the mid-1930s and prompted by the success of the
Blasket autobiographies and O'Flaherty's ''Two Years'', it gives an artistic
Gaeltacht
( , , ) are the districts of Ireland, individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home.
The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially recog ...
writer's personal reaction to an anglicised, urbanised post-revolution
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
and the world in general and represents the writer's work at its best.
1940 novels
Irish autobiographical novels
Irish-language literature
Novels set in Ireland
20th-century Irish novels
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