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,... Læs mere
Written between 1919 and 1923, this book was the first about the Blasket Islands - a tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. The author writes of island life in unadorned sketches from his diary. Other Blasket titles include "The Islandman" and "A Day in Our Life".
A translation of the classic autobiography by Tomás O’Crohan based on the fullest and most definitive 2002 Irish language edition by Prof. Seán Ó Coileáin.