The islandman / Tomás O'Crohan.
By: O'Crohan, Tomás.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: 288p. : ill., maps ; 20cm + pbk.ISBN: 0192812335 (m); 9780192812339.Subject(s): O'Crohan, Tomás | Biography
| Biography & non-fiction prose | Biography: general | Social & cultural history | Indigenous peoples | Ireland | 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 | European history | Blasket Islands (Ireland) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 941.96 OCR Summary: O'Crohan was born on Blasket Island, off the coast of Kerry in 1856. He was a master in his native Irish, which he taught to scholars. He shared the livelihood of a fishing community and in this book sets down the characters and people of the life.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.
Originally published: 1951.
O'Crohan was born on Blasket Island, off the coast of Kerry in 1856. He was a master in his native Irish, which he taught to scholars. He shared the livelihood of a fishing community and in this book sets down the characters and people of the life.
Translated from the Irish.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. v)
- 1 My Childhood (p. 1)
- 2 My Schooldays (p. 13)
- 3 Our Houses (p. 26)
- 4 In School and Out (p. 33)
- 5 My First Visit to Dingle (p. 41)
- 6 Bald Tom and the Old Days (p. 47)
- 7 My Last School (p. 59)
- 8 Marriage (p. 64)
- 9 Gathering Seaweed (p. 74)
- 10 Time Passes (p. 80)
- 11 My Manhood (p. 88)
- 12 The Day of the Seal Hunt (p. 94)
- 13 A Wife Proposed for Me (p. 102)
- 14 Christmas Provisions (p. 114)
- 15 A Merry Christmas (p. 131)
- 16 Shrovetide, 1878 (p. 142)
- 17 Work and Wandering (p. 148)
- 18 An End to Boats and Middlemen (p. 164)
- 19 The Little Canoe (p. 171)
- 20 The Troubles of Life (p. 186)
- 21 The Yellow Meal (p. 201)
- 23 I Begin to Take an Interest in Irish (p. 223)
- 24 This and That (p. 231)
- 25 The End (p. 242)