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Meon Gaelach: The original Derek as described by Flann O'Brien's brother

Meon Gaelach: The original Derek as described by Flann O'Brien's brother

Ciarán Ó Nualláin's satire of the "Efficiency Expert" is more relevant than ever.

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Meon Gaelach: The original Derek as described by Flann O'Brien's brother
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Dereks and “efficiency experts”

Flor this week’s Meon Gaelach we are going with a first: translating a fictional piece of Gaelic writing. Though we have mostly covered theorycel prose works so far, I think is just as, if not more important, to cover Gaelic fiction, poetry and creative writing more broadly. Certainly the author of this piece, Ciarán Ó Nua…

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