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From the Great Blasket to America
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Michael Carney
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-05 - Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin
Blasket Memories
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Pádraig Tyers
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

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An account of life on the Blasket Island and on the island's eventual demise.
The Last Blasket King
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Gerald Hayes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-20 - Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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The last King of the Great Blasket Island was Pádraig Ó Catháin, known as Peats Mhicí, who served for quarter of a century until his death in 1929. The King
The Blasket Islandman
Language: en
Pages: 387
Authors: Gerald Hayes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-04 - Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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Tomás Ó Criomhthain (1856–1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are acknowled
On an Irish Island
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Robert Kanigel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-26 - Publisher: Vintage

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On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous me