On An Irish Island
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On An Irish Island
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Author : Robert Kanigel
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-02-07
On An Irish Island written by Robert Kanigel and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-07 with History categories.
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early twentieth century for the rich communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the Irish language vanishing all through the rest of Ireland, the Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars and writers drawn there during the Gaelic renaissance—and the scene for a memorable clash of cultures between modern life and an older, sometimes sweeter world slipping away. Kanigel introduces us to the playwright John Millington Synge, some of whose characters in The Playboy of the Western World, were inspired by his time on the island; Carl Marstrander, a Norwegian linguist who gave his place on Norway’s Olympic team for a summer on the Blasket; Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, a Celtic studies scholar fresh from the Sorbonne; and central to the story, George Thomson, a British classicist whose involvement with the island and its people we follow from his first visit as a twenty-year-old to the end of his life. On the island, they met a colorful coterie of men and women with whom they formed lifelong and life-changing friendships. There’s Tomás O’Crohan, a stoic fisherman, one of the few islanders who could read and write Irish, who tutored many of the incomers in the language’s formidable intricacies and became the Blasket’s first published writer; Maurice O’Sullivan, a good-natured prankster and teller of stories, whose memoir, Twenty Years A-Growing, became an Irish classic; and Peig Sayers, whose endless repertoire of earthy tales left listeners spellbound. As we get to know these men and women, we become immersed in the vivid culture of the islanders, their hard lives of fishing and farming matched by their love of singing, dancing, and talk. Yet, sadly, we watch them leave the island, the village becoming uninhabited by 1953. The story of the Great Blasket is one of struggle—between the call of modernity and the tug of Ireland’s ancient ways, between the promise of emigration and the peculiar warmth of island life amid its physical isolation. But ultimately it is a tribute to the strength and beauty of a people who, tucked away from the rest of civilization, kept alive a nation’s past, and to the newcomers and islanders alike who brought the island’s remarkable story to the larger world.
The Island Of The White Cow
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Author : Deborah Tall
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 1986
The Island Of The White Cow written by Deborah Tall and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Americans categories.
Conveys the essence of life on a remote Irish island where the author lived for five years.
Island Of The White Cow
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Author : Deborah Tall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-01
Island Of The White Cow written by Deborah Tall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01 with Connemara (Ireland) categories.
Ireland S Islands
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Author : Peter Somerville-Large
language : en
Publisher: Gill
Release Date : 1999
Ireland S Islands written by Peter Somerville-Large and has been published by Gill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Valentia
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Author : Nellie O'Cleirigh
language : en
Publisher: Dublin : Portobello Press
Release Date : 1992
Valentia written by Nellie O'Cleirigh and has been published by Dublin : Portobello Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Ireland categories.
Valentia is in South West Kerry, next parish America. In the last century it was very different from other west coast islands because it had three major industries: fishing, slate quarrying and communications. These blended to form a unique social mix. As well as farmers and fishermen, the island had quarrymen, engineers, cable technicians, radio officers, meteorological staff, and a resident landlord, the Knight of Kerry. Valentia, a Different Irish Island is an account of their lives.
The Island Experience
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Author : John C. Haughey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Island Experience written by John C. Haughey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Islands categories.
Blasket Memories
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Author : Pádraig Tyers
language : en
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Release Date : 1998
Blasket Memories written by Pádraig Tyers and has been published by Mercier Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An account of life on the Blasket Island and on the island's eventual demise.
An Irish Island
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Author : Robin Flower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
An Irish Island written by Robin Flower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Folklore categories.
The Waves Of Tory
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Author : Jim Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Colin Smythe
Release Date : 2006
The Waves Of Tory written by Jim Hunter and has been published by Colin Smythe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In a world where everything seems tame and familiar, islands promise wildness and difference. Tory Island, the most remote and exposed of all the inhabited Irish islands, is no exception to this rule. The great seas ranging in from the Atlantic and the strong currents sweeping along its southern coast have isolated the island thus helping in the retention of a way of life that has long since disappeared on the mainland and the survival of Irish as the spoken language. The Waves of Tory tells the story of this small community in terms of their attachment to the land, their reverence for and awe of the sea, and their well-preserved egalitarian society, where dancers, musicians, storytellers and painters take pride of place. The text, in English and Irish, is interlaced with legends and tales of the supernatural, and illustrated with accounts of island customs and beliefs. The Tory islanders are a people whose roots go back to prehistoric times; typical is the King of Tory, Patsy Dan Rodgers, whose office is pre-Christian in origin. Links with the past are everywhere in evidence from the Iron Age fort, home to Balor of the Evil Eye, to the impressive remains of the early Celtic Church of St Colmcille. Superimposed on this pattern are the clustered settlements and vast open fields of the ancient Rundale farming system and the piers, boat rests, and kelp-pits, the products of man's more recent activities on the sea and the shore. These survivals from the past strike deep resonances with those in search of the "real" Ireland.
Voices
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Author : Patricia Scanlan
language : en
Publisher: Open Door Series
Release Date : 2020
Voices written by Patricia Scanlan and has been published by Open Door Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Short stories, English categories.
Since 1998, Open Door has been introducing readers new and old to some of Ireland's finest writers. In this our first collection of stories, we have gathered a range of voices to suit every taste. With themes ranging from family and friendship to ageing, love and childhood, there is something for everyone. So come on in! Book jacket.