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Blasket Islands
The Blasket Islands are famous for their writers, lore and unique location off the south-west tip of Ireland. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to explore the Great Blasket Island, learn its history and discover what has captivated visitors and residents in this special place. A beautifully illustrated and compelling history of the life, traditions and customs of an isolated community that has now disappeared. The book traces the fate of the Blasket people and the slow erosion of their culture to that sad day in 1952 when the families were evacuated from the Great Blasket Island.
On an Irish Island
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the Irish language vanishing all through the rest of Ireland, the Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars and writers drawn there during the Gaelic renaissance—and the scene for a memorable clash of cultures between modern life and an older, sometimes sweeter world slipping away. Kanigel introduces us...
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Dark Day on the Blaskets
A compelling portrait of a young woman as well as an engrossing portrait of West Kerry at a turning point in its cultural history, Dark Day on the Blaskets weaves an intricate tale out of the intersecting lives of Eileen Nicholls, one of the finest scholars in the new national movement, James Cousins, a poet and playwright from Belfast, and his wife Gretta, who had been involved with the suffragette movement. Dubhnshlaine follows the intensely mystical month in the Great Blasket leading up to the discovery of Eileen's body, which was found off the coast of the island.
Peig
A reprint of the Syracuse University Press edition of 1974.
The Loneliest Boy in the World
Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands off Ireland's southwest coast. His childhood was unique, as he was the only child on the island, the nearest in age being his uncle who was 30 years older. A 1951 newspaper article described him as 'the loneliest boy in the world - he has only seagulls as playmates'. In this captivating memoir, he recalls growing up on the island without a doctor, priest, school, church or electricity. The trials and tribulations of the small, vulnerable fishing community until its evacuation are vividly related. Despite public perception, Gearoid remembers a wonderful childhood, cherished by parents and neighbours. His memories are entwined with the beliefs and customs handed down through the generations and are an insight into life on the Blaskets."
Hungry for Home
A fictionalized retelling of the story of an Irish island and the dramatic events that led to its being abandoned. -- Dust jacket.
Twenty Years A-Growing
This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.
The Islandman
Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.
