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Browser: On the road in old Ireland, and an accidental journalist Brief reviews of: This Road of Mine; And Finally: A Journalist’s Life in 250 Stories; The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies Sat, May 8, 2021, 06:00 Paddy Murray has worked for various Irish newspapers for 46 years. Lilliput Press, €15 The translation of Mo Bhealach Féin, by the Donegal writer Seosamh MacGrianna, offers an account of his life as a marginalised figure who chose the precarity of the road and the company of tramps over a pensionable job. Ó hAodha’s fine translation respects both the spirit and the letter of the text. In a translator’s note, he compares MacGrianna’s work with Orwell’s, no doubt for its many sharp-eyed observations and acerbic commentary. Yet, this comparison does not do justice to the poetic tone of the text. MacGrianna’s familiarity with Irish poetry and legends ensures that the text includes many references to heroic figures, and quotations fr ....