The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower
1982, 1st paperback edition reprint. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #321296
ISBN: 0192812335
Physical description: 287 p. Notes: Translation of An t-oilea ánach. 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. Subjects: O Ó Crohan, Toma ás 1856-1937 Homes and haunts Ireland Blasket Islands. Ó Criomhthain, Tomás 1856-1937; Biography. O Ó Crohan, Toma ás 1856-1937 Homes and haunts Ireland Blasket Islands. Irish literature Translations into English. English literature Translations from Irish. Blasket Island Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Homes. Irish prose literature; Translations into English. Manners and customs. Ireland History. Northern Ireland Ulster History and description. Blasket Islands (Ireland) Social life and customs. Great Blasket Island (Ireland). Kerry (County) Blasket Islands Social conditions 1856-1935. Genre: Autobiography. Biographies. Illustrated.
Price: €12.95