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Erin go Brách
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By: Seán Óg Ó Murchú
Publisher: bog bodies press
Published: June 2026
Pages: 155
Categories: Fiction, Literature
Language: English
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ISBN-13: 9781917789042

She’d been the World over when we first met. I had left Ireland once, in 2007 and Belfast only a handful of times. I liked the cut of her, the cleverness, and the wit. She cared for my silly stories about words. She came from money. I came from Clonard. My ma was collecting the dole and doing the double. My teacher once told me that for an eternity, my life would be in a West Belfast bubble. She stayed out of trouble and I scraped along by the skin of my teeth. She wanted the World for herself — more than I might have comprehended. The unfathomable for me, to her was tangible, earnable, and discernible. She’d seen it before. She needed only to go back, if that was what she wanted. Back to those places from the television and the books, where her life had once existed and would again, before long. VOICE AND FORM: Erin Go Brách is written in a voice that has not been smoothed out for publication. Its language is colloquial and phonetic in places, springing from the specific rhythms and textures of working-class Belfast speech. Gaeilge moves through the text not as decoration or an exercise in translation, but as an integral, living part of the protagonist’s inner world. This is a deliberate act. In publishing a novel that refuses to compromise on its voice, Bog Bodies Press and Ó Murchú are making an argument: that literature belongs to everyone, and that the stories worth telling are not always the stories that arrive already formatted for the mainstream. 

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