Ireland uber alles this month - here is another book out of its
very heart's blood. An enchanting picture of a boy's life on an
island off the coast of Ireland, where excitement is found in egg
hunting on the cliffs, in rabbit snaring, in stealing a ride at
dawn to the mainland to see the races, in fairs and wakes and
playing truant from school. The war comes and goes, and to the boys
it means prosperity because of the wreckage washed up on the rocks.
And the final adventure marking manhood, is the trip to Dublin,
there to join the militia. There is humor and pathos, sincerity and
poetry, and the whole told in an exquisite lilting prose in which
one catches the strains of Irish music. (Kirkus Reviews)
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and
'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way
of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own
pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any
thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales
which he heard from his grandfather and sharpened by his own lively
imagination. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands
Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second
World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had
remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of
story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and
history of the islands, and has made their literature famous
throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP
contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary
tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.
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