Islandman

Name: Islandman
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ISBN: 9780192812339

ISBN-10: 0192812335

ISBN-13: 9780192812339

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: TomÃ¡s O'Crohan, Robin Flower

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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 new 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…

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List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.76" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword



My Childhood



My Schooldays



Our Houses



In School and Out



My First Visit to Dingle



Bald Tom and the Old Days



My Last School



Marriage



Gathering Seaweed



Time Passes



My Manhood



The Day of the Seal Hunt



A Wife Proposed for Me



Christmas Provisions



A Merry Christmas



Shrovetide, 1878



Work and Wandering



An End to Boats and Middlemen



The Little Canoe



The Troubles of Life



The Yellow Meal



I Begin to Take an Interest in Irish



This and That



The End