Writers

Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Cré na Cille (1949) Connemara

Ní mé an ar Áit an Phúint nó na Cúig Déag atá mé curtha? . . . Now I wonder if it is in the pound plot or in the fifteen shilling plot they have me buried. They went to the devil entirely if it’s in the ten shilling place they threw me after all the warnings I gave them. The morning of the day I died I called Pádraig up from the kitchen. “Will you do me a favour, Pádraig, asthore” says I. “Bury me in the pound plot. The pound plot. Some of us are laid in the ten shilling part, but if they are itself . . .’