Pity Youth Does Not Last - Reminiscences of Last of Great Blasket Island s Poets Storytellers

Zusatztext Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive ... compelling. Klappentext Mich¿ O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, `the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers'. People came from far and wide to visit her, and her story is told in An Old Woman's Reflections. She is fondly recalled in Miche'al's memoir of his island childhood amongst the weather-beaten crofts and fishermen's cottages. The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping ofcivilization across the three miles separating the islands from County Kerry, and the sadness of leaving the Great Blasket for the last time. Zusammenfassung The only English translation available of the reflections of the son of Peig Sayers, the last of the Great Blasket poets and storytellers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Youth and School; 2. New houses being built on the Island; 3.The Comet; 4. The day of the Auction on the Island; 5. Living in the new House; 6. How I got Thrush; 7. The Mackerel season; 8. A Day's Hunting and Peevishness; 9. Shrovetide and the Great Commotion; 10. Bad news - The Death of Nell Mhor's little Girl; 11. The Great War; 12. Sitting on the Bank of the Strand; 13. How the Warship came to the Island; 14. The Coming of Donall O'Sullivan; 15. The Rising; 16. My Term at School Finished

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• Authors: &apos, Micheal guiheen, O GUIHEEN MICHEAL, O&apos, Michael O'Guiheen, Micheal O'Guiheen, Micheel O'Guiheen, Micheél O'Guiheen, Micheal O''guiheen, Micheel O''guiheen
• Assisted by: Tim Enright (Translation), Enright Tim (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.1981
• EAN: 9780192813206
• ISBN: 978-0-19-281320-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Ireland, Social and cultural history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)