Islandsman

Zusatztext Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive ... compelling. Klappentext Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a now vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, 'to set down the character of the people about me so that somerecord of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be again'. Zusammenfassung Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas crohan, Robin Flower, O&apos, Thomas O'Crohan, Tom?'s O'Crohan, Tom^D'as O'Crohan, Tomas O'Crohan, Tomás O'Crohan
• Assisted by: Robin Flower (Translation), Flower Robin (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.03.1977
• EAN: 9780192812339
• ISBN: 978-0-19-281233-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Non-fiction book; European History, Biography: general, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Indigenous Peoples, British & Irish history, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Indigenous