Irish and Irish-American History at The Nyack Library: a list of books and web sites: The Blasket Writers
This guide is a bibliography with web links that accompanies the Nyack Library collection of books on Irish and Irish American History
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My Trips to Ireland 2005 and 2006 with the Institute for Irish American Studies at Lehman College
The Great Blasket Writers
The Islandman by Call Number: 941.96 OCRISBN: 9780192812339Publication Date: 1978-03-23Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writingThe Islandmanwas, 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.
Twenty Years A-Growing by Call Number: BIO OSULLIVANISBN: 9781879941397Publication Date: 1998-11-18O "Sullivan "s memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. SThe only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation. ”Sean O "F ol in, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.
The Poor Mouth by Call Number: FICTION O'BRIENISBN: 9781564780911Publication Date: 1996-03-01This is a satire of the Blasket writers and those of that ilk. It is quite hilarious. The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on the Irish, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.
