(original spelling ) is an

Irish-language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenou ...

novel by

Pádraic Ó Conaire Pádraic Ó Conaire (28 February 1882 – 6 October 1928) was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language. In his lifetime he wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel ' ...

. An English translation is published under the title ''Exile''. Published in 1910, it is arguably ( Peadar Ó Laoghaire's ''Séadna'' also being a contender for the position) the most important novel from the

Gaelic revival The Gaelic revival () was the late-nineteenth-century national revival of interest in the Irish language (also known as Gaelic) and Irish Gaelic culture (including folklore, mythology, sports, music, arts, etc.). Irish had diminished as a sp ...

. For many critics its radical social message, its sympathy with the poor and marginalised, its tendency to convey urban life honestly and fairly and its avoidance of romanticising rural life in comparison to urban life makes it the outstanding novel of the

.Philip O'Leary, ''The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921'' (Penn, 1994), ''passim''.

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* Full text of the 1916 edition at the Royal Irish Academy’s Digital Humanities Observatory online
''Deoraıḋeaċt'' (= ''Deoraidheacht'') (1916) by Pádraıc Ó Conaıre
1910 novels Irish-language literature Irish political novels 20th-century Irish novels {{1910s-poli-novel-stub