Twenty Years A-Growing
O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. “The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.”―Sean O'Fáoláin, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster. From Library Journal O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an...
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This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it. Library Journal O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author.
1. In Dingle 2. My First Journey Home 3. The Island 4 A Day's Hunting 5. Ventry Races 6. Pierce's Cave 7. A Shoal Of Mackerel 8. Hallowe'en 9 . The Whale 10. The Wake 11. A Night In The Inish 12 The War 13. The Shipwreck 14. The Wanderer 15. The Lobster Season 16 Matchmaking 17. The Wedding Day 18. An American Wake 19. The Stranger 20 My Last Journey To The Inish 21 I Leave Home 22. From Dingle East 23. The City Of Dublin 24. The Civic Guard 25. Connemara 26. Conclusion.
\ Irish IndependentA book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete.\ \ \ \ \ The ListenerYou cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation...\ \ \ Library JournalO'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author.\ \
