A Soldier's Song
by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh
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Pub Date 1 Nov 2023 | Archive Date 31 Dec 2022
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Description
A Note From the Publisher
Dónall Mac Amhlaigh (1926-1989) was one of the most important Irish-language writers of the 20th century. A native of County Galway, he is best known for his novels and short stories concerning the lives of the more than half-a-million Irish people who left Ireland for post-war Britain.
A prolific journalist and a committed socialist in the Christian Socialist tradition, Mac Amhlaigh, whose diaries and notebooks are held in the National Library of Ireland, was a member of the Connolly Association in Northampton and contributed regularly to newspapers such as the Irish Press and a range of journals on both sides of the water throughout the 1970s and 1980s often providing the perspectives of the Irish in Britain on issues such as class, economy, emigrant life in England, the conflict in Northern Ireland and civil rights-related issues.
Advance Praise
Winner of Pen Translates Award
Dónall Mac Amhlaigh’s A Soldier’s Song demonstrates why Irish is one of the oldest written vernaculars in the world. In a language vibrant to its very core, MacAmhlaigh gives a picture of a country and a people that have been central to the European imagination for centuries. He captures precisely the psychoses, the sadnesses, the joys and the prejudices of a people forced into the music of survival. This novel is as much about the change from rural to urban in Irish life as it is about a young man’s hopes and dreams in a post-war Europe just coming-of-age. Written just before he left Ireland for a new life in Britain, Mac Amhlaigh’s novel is a paean to the city of his birth – Galway – its people, pubs and streets. Like Joyce, Mac Amhlaigh sought to record every pub and dancehall, every sunset, stone wall and rainbow in his mind, to pack the city in his suitcase so that she remained with him forever, so he could all at once hear her lost voice everywhere. Colum McCann, U.S. National Book Award Winner
“A Soldier’s Song does not include great wars, but just the fun and competition and camaraderie and happenstances of young men who end up in uniform. It is funny and sad and wistful, and a portrait of a time and experience which has never been captured quite like this. Mícheál Ó hAodha’s translation brings us right into his world, giving the original Irish a new life with style and with verve.” Alan Titley
“A Soldier’s Song is a work that exudes authenticity and immediacy.”
– Liam Harte
“Mícheál Ó hAodha has done the literary world a huge service by translating Dónall Mac Amhlaigh's work into English.”
Gillian Mawson
Marketing Plan
Review copies and profile of the author in several leading Irish newspapers
Review copies and profile of the author in several leading Irish newspapers
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781914595035 |
| PRICE | US$12.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 264 |
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