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Slattery's Sago Saga is an unfinished novel by Irish writer Flann O'Brien. Arthur Riordan produced a play version in 2010. The novel details the efforts of a Scottish-American woman to replace Ireland's potato crop with the hardier sago. This replacement would mean fewer reasons for Irish citizens to emigrate to the United States, as the sago plants would resist blight, so preventing the Irish from importing "popery". The book satirizes Fordism.

References

1. O'Brien, Harvey (17 July 2010). "Slattery's Sago Saga". Irish Theatre Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
2. Keating, Sara (12 July 2010). "Flann and me and his greatest story never told". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
3. Lezard, Nicholas (17 September 2013). "The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
4. McFeaters, Andrew V. (14 December 2017). Ortolano, Scott (ed.). Popular Modernism and Its Legacies: From Pop Literature to Video Games. Bloomsbury. pp. 165–183. ISBN 978-1501325113. Retrieved 26 July 2019.

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