Pity Youth Does Not Last Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers

Name: Pity Youth Does Not Last Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
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ISBN: 9780192813206

ISBN-10: 019281320X

ISBN-13: 9780192813206

Edition: 1982

Authors: Micheal O'Guiheen, Tim Enright

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'The tide spreads a mantle of silkAround the Great Blasket Island'So wrote Micheal O'Guiheen of his beloved island home. But by 1953 the authorities had evacuated the Great Blasket and its traditions were vanishing. Micheal O'Guiheen, 'the Poet' of the book, was the son of Peig Sayers, who wrote 'An Old Woman's Reflections'. But while that was a celebration of the good times, and her son's schoolmate Maurice O'Sullivan's 'Twenty Years A-Growing' was a book of laughing youth, this takes the story to sombre middle age. It tells of sunny times clouded overonly by unconscious intimations of mortality, not only of youth but also of an irreplaceable culture: the consternation caused by a passing…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.76" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English




Youth and School



New houses being built on the Island



The Comet



The day of the Auction on the Island



Living in the new House



How I got Thrush



The Mackerel season



A Day's Hunting and Peevishness



Shrovetide and the Great Commotion



Bad news - The Death of NellMhor's little Girl



The Great War



Sitting on the Bank of the Strand



How the Warship came to the Island



The Coming of Donall O'Sullivan



The Rising



My Term at School Finished