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by Tomás O'Crohan (Author), Tim Enright (Translator)
The island of the Great Blasket and its remote fishing community lies three miles of the Kerry coast of Ireland, at the westernmost tip of Europe. Virtually unknown before this century, it is now famous throughout the world as the source of a rich and unique flowering of literature, a
tradition as old as the Gaelic language itself. Now again available, these seven volumes--all translated from the original Gaelic--offer engaging accounts of a now-vanished lifestyle, a group of stories that will charm readers of Irish literature, those moved by a nostagia for "simpler times," and
anyone who enjoys a good tale well told.
way of life which was rapidly receding into the past even as he wrote.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.47 x 7.64 x 4.98 IN
Publication Date: January 23, 1986
