It is my personal opinion that if her presence on the curriculum had consisted less of accounts of the bleakness of Irish peasant life at the turn of the century and more farmers’ wives cuckolding their husbands with corpses possessed by the devil, the Irish language would be in rude and glowing health today. TW: gore, rape, necrophilia, profanity, death of children, graphic depictions of cannibalism, alcoholism, unhealthy relationships, animal death, and people having their faces eaten off by dogs After reading The Burial Tide, […]
“If, through some exceptional circumstances, you are born without an aunt Mary, one is provided for you by the government along with your birth certificate and a book of grievances.”
Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson