Oein DeBhairduin: An Druchtin agus an Seilide, illustrated by Olya Anima

Irish language edition of The Slug and the Snail

Drawn from the Irish Traveller storytelling tradition, DeBhairduin's tale is a gentle allegory about difference, self-acceptance and different ways of seeing the world.

Two slugs travel happily together as brothers, until they meet a crow who shows them that they have no home.Ashamed, one of the slugs decides to make himself a home, and calls himself snail. The brothers grow apart andbecome suspicious of each other.

The slug with no shell-house feels ashamed until he learns to see that the very road he travels is his home, and so he shall never be homeless.

The happy slug no longer sees himself through the judging eyes of others, but proudly asserts his place in the world.

Fréamhaithe i dtraidisiún scéalaíochta an Lucht Siúil, isfáthscéal séimh é seo faoi éagsúlacht, féinghlacadh agusléargais éagsúla ar an domhan.

Taistealaíonn dhá dhrúchtín, deartháireacha, le chéile godtí go bhfiafraíonn seanchearc phréacháin díobh cá bhfuila mbaile. Buaileann náire duine acu, a shocraíonn godtógfaidh sé teach agus go dtabharfaidh sé ‘seilide’ airféin. Fuaraíonn caidreamh na ndeartháireacha agusfásann drochamhras eatarthu.

Tá náire ar an drúchtín nach bhfuil blaosc aige go dtí godtuigeann sé gurb ionann an bóthar a dtaistealaíonn sé airagus a bhaile agus, mar sin, beidh baile aige go deo. 

As seo amach tá an drúchtín sona beag beann ardhrochmheas neacha eile agus tugann sé faoin saol lemórtas agus le muinín.

Format: Hardback