Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:43 +0200https://english.radio.cz/irelands-good-soldier-svejk-reaches-prague-8170614© 2026 Radio Prague International All the characters in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s great Irish-language comic novel Cré na Cille are dead. The title could be translated as Graveyard Clay and the setting is a graveyard in Connemara. But this is a graveyard where the deceased are more than a little talkative. The book is narrated in many voices, most of them in South Connemara dialect, and has been said to be untranslatable into English, let alone Czech, but now, nearly 70 years after it was first published in Ireland, Cré na Cille has just come out in a vibrant Czech translation. David Vaughan talks to the translator Radvan Markus. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/markus_radvan1.jpg?timestamp=1741079996 https://english.radio.cz/irelands-good-soldier-svejk-reaches-prague-8170614 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9