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The Islandman
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Author : Tomás Ó Crohan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1978
The Islandman written by Tomás Ó Crohan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Blasket Islands (Ireland) categories.
Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "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 seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.
The Islandman
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Author : Irene Lucchitti
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
The Islandman written by Irene Lucchitti and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book concerns Tomás O'Crohan of the Blasket Islands and offers a radical reinterpretation of this iconic Irish figure and his place in Gaelic literature. It examines the politics of Irish culture that turned O'Crohan into «The Islandman» and harnessed his texts to the national political project, presenting him as an instinctual, natural hero and a naïve, almost unwilling writer, and his texts as artefacts of unselfconscious, unmediated linguistic and ethnographic authenticity. The author demonstrates that such misleading claims, never properly scrutinised before this study, have been to the detriment of the author's literary reputation and that they have obscured the deeply personal and highly idiosyncratic purpose and nature of his writing. At the core of the book is a recognition that what O'Crohan wrote was not primarily a history, nor an ethnography, but an autobiography. The book demonstrates that the conventional reading of the texts, which privileges O'Crohan's fisherman identity, has hidden from view the writer protagonist inscribed in the texts, subordinating his identity as a writer to his identity as a peasant. The author shows O'Crohan to have been a literary pioneer who negotiated the journey from oral tradition into literature as well as a modern, self-aware man of letters engaging deliberately and artistically with questions of mortality.
The Islandman
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Author : Tomás O'Crohan
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1977-03-09
The Islandman written by Tomás O'Crohan and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-03-09 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
The Islandman
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Author : Tomás Ó Criomhthain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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Author : Tomas O'Crohan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
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The Islandman
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Author : Tomás O'Crohan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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The Vanishing World Of The Islandman
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Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-06
The Vanishing World Of The Islandman written by Máiréad Nic Craith and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with Social Science categories.
Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages—considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms—Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.
The Islandman Translated From The Irish By Robin Flower
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Author : Tomás Ó Crohan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Islandman Translated From The Irish By Robin Flower written by Tomás Ó Crohan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Blasket Islands, Ire categories.
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Author : Tomás O'Crohan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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The Islandman
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Author : Tom Quinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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"Like in Connemara, the water was exquisitely cold and made him sigh in its shocking embrace as the green-gold of the waves covered and possessed him. He had been only a short time living on the island and this now felt like a green-golden baptism, an icy inauguration, which he experienced deep down as a bright acceptance of his untoward presence on the edge of his country and his continent, the edge of the western world. 'I am the new Playboy of the Western World!' he called out loudly to the deserted beach, while laughing to himself. Inwardly, he added quietly, self-mockingly, 'some Playboy!'... What was he actually, in his new island state, but a capsized and marooned traveller, abandoned and lonely, fleeing his memories, exiled from his own life? He was not a 'Playboy' of the western or of any world. He was Robinson Crusoe d'Amour. Exiled, marooned, loveless." Tom Quinn's lyrical new novel of love, loss, heartbreak, and grief, tells the tale of a man, Harry, on the run from the tragic shadows that have fallen over his life. But where will his flight to an island off the west coast of Ireland take him? Will it lead him to forgetting and peace or to despair and perhaps madness? Or can his sojourn on the island in the Atlantic lead him back to life and even to love? Read "The Islandman" and discover for yourself what happens when you have gone to the extreme edge of the western world, and there is nowhere left to go.