Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and a giant among twentieth-century authors. Liam Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer, broadcaster, translator, and biographer. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. Tim Robinson is a writer, artist, and cartographer. He lives in Roundstone, Ireland.

“[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant.”—William Brennan, New Yorker“A cause for celebration.”—Jan Gardner, Boston Globe“Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of Ó Cadhain’s most famous book is gloriously attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the original Cré na Cille.”—Patricia Craig, Times Literary SupplementLiam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association’s tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work“A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple.”—Declan Kiberd

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and a giant among twentieth-century authors. Liam Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer, broadcaster, translator, and biographer. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. Tim Robinson is a writer, artist, and cartographer. He lives in Roundstone, Ireland.

“[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant.”—William Brennan, New Yorker“A cause for celebration.”—Jan Gardner, Boston Globe“Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of Ó Cadhain’s most famous book is gloriously attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the original Cré na Cille.”—Patricia Craig, Times Literary SupplementLiam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association’s tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work“A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple.”—Declan Kiberd

Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers in the Irish language and a giant among twentieth-century authors. Liam Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer, broadcaster, translator, and biographer. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. Tim Robinson is a writer, artist, and cartographer. He lives in Roundstone, Ireland.

“[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant.”—William Brennan, New Yorker“A cause for celebration.”—Jan Gardner, Boston Globe“Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of Ó Cadhain’s most famous book is gloriously attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the original Cré na Cille.”—Patricia Craig, Times Literary SupplementLiam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association’s tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work“A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, Graveyard Clay is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple.”—Declan Kiberd