A book that picks up the loose threads of Twenty Years A'Growing by
Maurice O'Sullivan and fills in the gaps. Another story of the
Blaskets, this time the autobiography of an old man who lived there
virtually all his life. Much more meticulous in detail as to the
daily round of events, the houses, the furnishings, the ways of
life, the individual members of the tiny community, the relations
to the world outside, the fights against taxation, the changes made
in private property, the schools, the tiny evidences of encroaching
"civilization". Good reading and with much of the same graceful
Gaelic phraseology that characterized the other book, but there is
not the freshness, the spontaneity, the artlessness that caught the
public off guard, and won wide popularity for the story of the
island boy. Sell to same market. (Kirkus Reviews)
Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and
died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared
to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet
possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to
observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description
of a now vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was
in his own words, '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 again'.
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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