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By O`crohan Tomas
Tomas O`crohan - 2013
This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry captures a community at the close of the nineteenth century. It is the first complete translation of Tomás O’Crohan’s autobiography, An tOileánach, originally published in 1929. This edition is based on the definitive 2002 Irish language version and includes passages omitted from earlier translations. O’Crohan, a fisherman who taught himself to read and write, depicts an unforgiving landscape of human experience in vivid, unaffected language.