The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Crohan, Tomás, 1856-1937, author.

Contributor:

Flower, Robin, 1881-1946, translator.

Series:

Oxford Paperbacks

Oxford paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blasket Islands (Ireland)--Social life and customs.

Blasket Islands (Ireland).

Blasket Islands (Ireland)--Biography.

Ó Crohan, Tomás, 1856-1937--Homes and haunts--Ireland--Blasket Islands.

Ó Crohan, Tomás.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 mightlive after us, for the like of us will never be again'. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Pen

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates; 1. My Childhood ; 2. My Schooldays; 3· Our Houses; 4. In School and Out; 5. My First Visit to Dingle; 6. Bald Tom and the Old Days; 7. My Last School; 8. Marriage; 9. Gathering Seaweed; 10. Time Passes; 11. My Manhood ; 12. The Day of the Seal Hunt; 13. A Wife Proposed for Me; 14. Christmas Provisions; 15. A Merry Christmas; 16. Shrovetide, 1878; 17. Work and Wandering; 18. An End to Boats and Middlemen; 19. The Little Canoe; 20. The Troubles of Life; 21. The Yellow Meal; 22. The Wake; 23. I begin to take an Interestin Irish

24· This and That25. The End

Notes:

Translation of An t-oileánach.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-103739-7

0-19-159242-0