"The Dregs of the Day" by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Vince (A Book No One Wants) and Chad talk about Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s novella, The Dregs of the Day, translated from the Irish by Alan Titley. Dregs is available from from Yale University Press, who also published The Dirty Dust & Graveyard Clay—two very different translations of the same book, and the primary topic for a good chunk of this episode. In terms of The Dregs of the Day, it’s about a widower who doesn’t want to deal with the practicalities of his wife’s passing and instead drinks and bumbles his way through an Irish weekend . . . This episode’s music is “When I Was Done Dying” by Dan Deacon.You can subscribe to the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast at Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, and watch us on YouTube.And be sure to follow our sister podcasts: Two Month Review (Apple, Spotify) and Three Percent (Apple, Spotify) for more book talk! Get full access to Mining the Dalkey Archive at dalkeyarchive.substack.com/subscribe