An unsentimental love letter to rural Irish life, Mouthing is narrated by several generations of villagers in a town full of people only...
is narrated by several generations of villagers in a town full of people only too happy to oblige in spreading the bad news.is narrated by several generations of villagers, tracing the fortunes of one small community from the mid-20th to the early 21st century in a series of highly confessional and darkly hilarious monologues.
Orla Mackey is a writer and teacher based in Kilkenny in Ireland. She studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.Stephen’s the son. The eldest. Stephen’s twenty-four or twenty-five. Something like that. He had a twenty-first there about five year ago or more. Now that I think of it. So work it out for yourself what age he is. That wasn’t a night you’d forget too easily.
And some surprise for the mother. Stephen’s mother. Some surprise for her when this brassy auld wan showed up with not so much as a stitch on her. Did they think of that? The little f*ckin’ bowsies. Stephen’s poor mother. My f*ckin’ wife. Say what you like about the woman but she was never into strippers. Never showed the slightest bit of interest in them. But they didn’t pay any heed to that. The hurlers. Oh no.
She had the sisters brought in from two parishes up for the occasion. For the young lad’s birthday. The Bergin sisters were all reunited for the night. Sitting up prim, drinking their ginger ales. Like three little plump ducks so they were. Taking it all in. It wasn’t long before they had a lot more to take in than they’d bargained for. Their eyes nearly fell out of their heads, the same women. Fell out and rolled around the floor of the pub below in the village.
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