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Author : Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Great Blaskets (i.e. Blasket) written by Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Great Blasket written by Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange and different way of life emerges as we discover an island loved and feared.
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Author : Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853425267
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Great Blaskets [i.e. Blasket] written by Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Hayes
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848898878
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Last Blasket King written by Gerald Hayes and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last King of the Great Blasket Island was Pádraig Ó Catháin, known as Peats Mhicí, who served for quarter of a century until his death in 1929. The King helped the islanders navigate through life and through national as well as international events, such as the 1916 Rising and the Great War. This book tells how he came to be King of the Great Blasket Island and how his personality and integrity shaped the role. This is the first account of the King's extraordinary life, written in collaboration with his descendants in the USA and Ireland. It tells the story of this unique man, his many contributions to the island and his extended legacy. • Also available: From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney and The Loneliest Boy in the World by Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin
Author : Michael Carney
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848891148
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book From the Great Blasket to America written by Michael Carney and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other former islanders. The death on the island of his younger brother set off a chain of events that led to its evacuation, in which Mike played a pivotal role. This is the story of his life and his efforts to promote Irish culture in America, to preserve the memory of The Great Blasket, to respect roots left behind and to set down roots in a new land. Written as Mike approached the age of 93, this memoir is probably the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders. * Similar to: An Irish Navvy - the Diary of an Exile and The Hard Road to Klondike
Author : Cole Moreton
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141001944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Hungry for Home written by Cole Moreton and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moreton delivers this beautiful, haunting, previously untold story of a vanished people from the edge of Ireland and the events that led to the abandonment of their way of life. This book is about home and what that means and a gripping account of the quest for a vanished people.
Author : Robert Kanigel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307389871
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book On an Irish Island written by Robert Kanigel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous men and women who visited and were inspired by it. In a love letter to a vanished way of life, Robert Kanigel brings to life this wildly beautiful island, notable for the vivid communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke well into the twentieth century. With the Irish language rapidly disappearing, Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars, linguists, and writers during the Gaelic renaissance. As we follow these visitors—among them John Millington Synge, author of The Playboy of the Western World—we are captivated both by the tiny group of islanders who kept an entire country’s past alive and by their complex relationships with those who brought the island’s story to the larger world.
Author : Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192812335
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Islandman written by Tomás Ó Crohan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848898665
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Loneliest Boy in the World written by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * 'The Loneliest Boy in the World – he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age was his uncle who was thirty years older. In this affectionate memoir, Gearóid recalls growing up on the island without a doctor, priest, school, church or electricity. Despite public perception of this small, vulnerable fishing community, he 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. He speaks with authority of the difficulties and challenges facing the final generation on the island. The Blaskets, with their deserted, crumbling cottages, will live on, in part due to the invaluable memories of the last child of the Great Blasket Island. • Also available: From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney
Author : Joan Stagles
Publisher : Irish Amer Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780862780715
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Blasket Islands written by Joan Stagles and published by Irish Amer Book Company. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blasket Islands reveals the poignant history of this doomed island community off the west coast of Ireland. It discusses the community's origins, and the slow erosion of a genuine culture, one that produced a sizeable library of classic memoirs, and gives a detailed account of the island families and their inevitable fate -- the last people were evacuated in 1953 when they could no longer sustain their remote way of life.
Author : Maurice O'Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1879941392
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years A-Growing written by Maurice O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192819093
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Island Cross-talk written by Tomás Ó Crohan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island Cross-Talk, first published in 1928, was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands, that remote, tiny community off the West Kerry coast speaking a dying language. In these pages from his diary, Ó'Crohan jotted down snatches of conversation, anecdotes, descriptions of the landscape and the sea.
Author : J. P. Monninger
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250187702
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Seven Letters written by J. P. Monninger and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. P. Monninger, author of the international bestseller The Map That Leads to You, the novel Nicholas Sparks called “romantic and unforgettable", tells a poignant love story of the ways the world divides two souls—and the way that love brings them together. Kate Moreton is in Ireland on sabbatical from her teaching position at Dartmouth College when she meets Ozzie Ferriter, a fisherman and a veteran of the American war in Afghanistan. The Ferriter family history dates back centuries on the remote Blasket Islands, and Ozzie – a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States – has retreated to the one place that might offer him peace from a war he cannot seem to leave behind. Beside the sea, with Ireland’s beauty as a backdrop, the two fall deeply in love and attempt to live on an island of their own making, away from the pressures of the outside world. Ireland writes its own love stories, the legends claim, and the limits of Kate and Ozzie’s love and faith in each other will be tested. When his demons lead Ozzie to become reckless with his life—and Kate’s—she flees for America rather than watch the man she loves self-destruct. But soon a letter arrives informing Kate that her heroic husband has been lost at sea, and Kate must decide whether it is an act of love to follow him or an act of mercy to forget.
Author : Gerald Hayes
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788410394
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book The Blasket Islandman written by Gerald Hayes and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary heritage out of island life. With indefatigable persistence, he steadily built on his modest formal education, learning to read and write in Irish during middle age while simultaneously expanding his knowledge of literature and history. Scholarly visitors were impressed with Tomás's observations of his tiny community. They encouraged him to commit his stories and memories to paper. He wrote three first-person accounts of his experiences, bequeathing to us a captivating saga of a folk culture doomed by difficult circumstances. His works are among the first examples of Ireland's transition from oral to written folk storytelling. The Blasket Islandman tells, for the first time, the full story of Tomás's life, with its many triumphs and travails. This absorbing account also describes the forces that influenced his work and details his impressive legacy. Tomás was determined that his community be remembered. In the process, he achieved a level of immortality for himself. More than eighty years after his passing, he remains the famed 'Blasket Islandman' and, to paraphrase the man himself, the like of him will never be again.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192812346
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Great Blasket Island written by and published by . This book was released on 1981* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Muiris Mac Conghail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blaskets written by Muiris Mac Conghail and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Blasket Island is a townland in the parish of Dunquin, county Kerry.
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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826484857
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Letters from England written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters described Europe's oldest democracy for the benefit of the citizens of Europe's newest, and Capek was acutely aware of the deep-down affinity between his countrymen and the English.
