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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
Peig
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Peig Sayers
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974-10-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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A reprint of the Syracuse University Press edition of 1974.
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 Loneliest Boy in the World
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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* 'The Loneliest Boy in the World – he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he wa
An Old Woman’s Reflections
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Peig Sayers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-03 - Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

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Peig Sayers was ‘the Queen, of Gaelic story-tellers’. She was born in the parish of Dunquin in Kerry and married into a neighbouring island, the Great Blask