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This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.
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During a first-time visit to Ireland's southwestern coast, I picked up two books in Dingle's aquarium shop. One of them is The Islander (An tOileánach), an autobiographical account by Tomas O'Crohan (Tomás Ó Criomhthain), originally written in "Munster Irish" (a form of Gaelic), and appearing in English (in 2012) in a painstakingly researched new translation (by Professors Gary Bannister and David Sowby). O'Crohan lived from the mid-1850s to the 1930's on The Great Blasket Island, off the Dingle peninsula. He was a fisherman and as an adult taught himself to read and write. The book, originally a series of diary…
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