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The Islander

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Description for The Islander Paperback. A translation of the classic autobiography by Tomas O'Crohan based on the fullest and most definitive 2002 Irish language edition by Prof. Sean O Coileain. Translator(s): Bannister, Garry; Sowby, David. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.

This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.

Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O’Crohan’s autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor Seán Ó Coileáin’s definitive 2002 Irish language edition. It contains many passages omitted from the previous English language translation by Robin Flower from the 1930s, some of which were ... Read more

Tomás O’Crohan, a fisherman who, at around the age of forty, has taught himself to read and write in his own native tongue, depicts in unaffected, vivid language a very unforgiving landscape of human experience. The Islander reflects life as it was on the Blaskets, raw, real and extremely challenging.

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Product Details

Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717157945
SKU
V9780717157945
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98

About Tomas O´crohan
Garry Bannister works as an Irish language teacher and has lectured at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. He developed a great love for Irish from his teacher, the late Harry Lush. He studied Irish and Russian at Trinity College Dublin, after which he went to Moscow State University where he received an MA in Russian language and literature. He has a ... Read more

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