In O'Brien's 1941 novel "The Poor Mouth," the narrator is a kind of dyspeptic David Copperfield who finds himself in a Gaeltacht memoir.
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It's true that Senate Republicans continue to poor-mouth their prospects for passing a bill, but that may actually be part of their strategy to do so.
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Broderick and his partners Don Creedon and Stephen Smallhorne co-founded the Poor Mouth Theatre Company in the Bronx, in 2010.
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Also in 1981, Binks played on the album Finardi by Italian rock singer Eugenio Finardi. Binks toured with Lionheart (1981) and Tytan (1982–1983) soon after their first single release. Since then, Binks has appeared in a classic rock cover band around South London called The Shakers, with Dave Bunce, guitarist Pete Friesen (formerly with Jeff Beck and with Alice Cooper), and vocalist/guitarist Tom Lundy (of The Poor Mouth). Rounding out the band was bassist Phil Rynhart, co-founder member of The Poor Mouth.
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On 7 March 2014, Broderick tweeted that Liam Neeson had attended a performance. Broderick's Poor Mouth Theatre Company presented his second play, Spudmunchers in 2012. The production was staged in a popular Bronx bar in 2012. Broderick also directed the play, a story of two Irish brothers living together in Woodlawn Heights, a predominantly Irish-American working- class neighborhood in the Bronx.
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Shortly after, Jackie McAuley decided to pursue a solo career, to form The Poor Mouth, and to work as a valued session musician and as Lonnie Donegan's musical director and sideman. He is still recording and playing. Judy Dyble went on to marry DJ and lyricist Simon Stable and joined a short-lived band called Dyble, Coxhill & the Miller Brothers. She retired from music in 1973.
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Admiral Hugh Sinclair became director-general of MI6 in 1924, and he made Menzies his deputy by 1929, with Menzies being promoted to full colonel soon afterwards.C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, by Anthony Cave Brown, 1987. In 1924, Menzies was allegedly involved—alongside Sidney Reilly and Desmond MortonZinoviev Letter in SIS forgery (no) Shock, The Poor Mouth.—in the forging of The Zinoviev Letter.
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With his first wife he co-authored a play, The Poor Mouth (1985) based on a short novel by Myles na gCopaleen (Brian O'Nolan). He has written and published many essays and articles on foreign policy, current affairs and literature. He co-authored the book Freedom of Information in the Legal System of the Czech Republic (2002). In 2014, his biography of Václav Havel has been published both in Czech and English (Atlantic Books).
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Meanwhile they formed Rowdy with Billy Bremner (The Pretenders) and Les Binks (Judas Priest). In the late 1980s, McAuley led for several years the critically acclaimed Celtic rock outfit Poor Mouth, recording the album Gael Force. After an accident almost severing his finger, McAuley during recovery began to write more solo driven material. Since breaking up the band in the 1990s, he has released several well reviewed albums under his own name.
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But he was also the author of An Béal Bocht (1941), a satire in Irish on Gaeltacht autobiographies, later translated as The Poor Mouth. The short story has also proven popular with Irish fiction writers. Well-known writers in the genre include Frank O'Connor (1903–1966) and Seán Ó Faoláin (1900–1991). Notable names straddling the late 20th and early 21st-century include John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Gerard Beirne, Dermot Bolger, Seamus Deane, Dermot Healy, Jennifer Johnston, Eugene McCabe, Patrick McCabe, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín, William Trevor and William Wall.
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The outstanding modernist prose writer in Irish was Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and prominent poets included Caitlín Maude, Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máire Mhac an tSaoi. Prominent bilingual writers included Brendan Behan (who wrote poetry and a play in Irish) and Flann O'Brien. Two novels by O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds and The Third Policeman, are considered early examples of postmodern fiction, but he also wrote a satirical novel in Irish called An Béal Bocht (translated as The Poor Mouth). Liam O'Flaherty, who gained fame as a writer in English, also published a book of short stories in Irish (Dúil).
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As well as writing and illustrating his own books and Thompson's, Steadman has worked with writers including Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell and Brian Patten, and also illustrated editions of Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island, Animal Farm, the English translation of Flann O'Brien's Gaelic-language classic The Poor Mouth, and most recently, Fahrenheit 451. Steadman has drawn album covers for numerous music artists, including the Who, Exodus, Frank Zappa and Ambrosia, and the lead banner for the gonzo journalism website GonzoToday.com. Among the British public, Steadman is well known for his illustrations for the catalogues of the off- licence chain Oddbins. In 1985, Steadman designed a set of four British postage stamps to commemorate the appearance that year of Halley's Comet.
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Other books written by O'Nolan include An Béal Bocht—translated from the Irish as The Poor Mouth—(a parody of Tomás Ó Criomhthain's autobiography An t-Oileánach—in English The Islander), and The Hard Life (a fictional autobiography meant to be his "misterpiece"). As noted above he may, between 1946 and 1952, been one of the writers to use the pseudonym Stephen Blakesley to write up to eight books of the protracted series of "penny dreadful" Sexton Blake novels and stories, and he may have written yet more fiction under a wide array of pseudonyms. O'Nolan's theatrical output was unsuccessful. Faustus Kelly, a play about a local councillor selling his soul to the devil for a seat in the Dáil, ran for only 11 performances in 1943.
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The book is a kindly parody of the genre of Gaeltacht autobiographies, such as Tomás Ó Criomhthain's autobiography (The Islandman), or Peig Sayers' autobiography Peig, which recounts her life, especially the latter half, as a series of misfortunes in which much of her family die by disease, drowning or other mishap. Books of this genre were part of the Irish language syllabus in the Irish school system and so were mandatory reading for generations of children from independence in 1921. O'Nolan was in fact a great admirer of An t-Oileánach, which is widely regarded as being the greatest work of the genre, but critic Declan Kiberd has noted how O'Nolan's admiration for a writer tended to express itself as parody of the writer's work. The Irish expression "to put on the poor mouth" () is mildly pejorative and refers to the practice, often associated with peasant farmers, of exaggerating the direness of one's situation, particularly financially, to evoke sympathy, charity and perhaps the forbearance of creditors and landlords or generosity of customers.
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