Island home : the Blasket heritage / George Thomson.
By: Thomson, George Derwent
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BookPublisher: Dingle : Brandon, 1998Description: 154p. ; 22cm + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0863221610 (m); 9780863221613.Subject(s): English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Irish literature -- History and criticism | Literature: history & criticism | Classic fiction | Literary studies: general | Literature | Blasket Islands (Ireland) -- Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 809.894196 THO Summary: George Thomson, one of the great Greek scholars of the age, visited the Blasket Islands, off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1923. There he learned Gaelic, and encountered an extraordinary island community.
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The Blasket Heritage George Thomson, one of the great Greek scholars of the age, visited the Blasket islands, off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1923. Here he learned Gaelic and encountered an extraordinary island community which was briefly to produce a remarkable contribution to contemporary literature, including the classics, Twenty Years A-Growing, The Islandman, and Peig. Island Home. This is his unique account of the island community and its writers.
Originally published: 1988.
Includes bibliographical references.
George Thomson, one of the great Greek scholars of the age, visited the Blasket Islands, off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1923. There he learned Gaelic, and encountered an extraordinary island community.