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A Pity Youth Does not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
Micheél O´guiheen
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Description for A Pity Youth Does not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
Paperback. The only English translation available of the reflections of the son of Peig Sayers, the last of the Great Blasket poets and storytellers. Translator(s): Enright, Tim. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174.
'The tide spreads a mantle of silk Around the Great Blasket Island' So wrote Micheal O'Guiheen of his beloved island home. But by 1953 the authorities had evacuated the Great Blasket and its traditions were vanishing. Micheal O'Guiheen, 'the Poet' of the book, was the son of Peig Sayers, who wrote 'An Old Woman's Reflections'. But while that was a celebration of the good times, and her son's schoolmate Maurice O'Sullivan's 'Twenty Years A-Growing' was a book of laughing youth, this takes the story to sombre middle age. It tells of sunny times clouded over only ... Read more
'The tide spreads a mantle of silk Around the Great Blasket Island' So wrote Micheal O'Guiheen of his beloved island home. But by 1953 the authorities had evacuated the Great Blasket and its traditions were vanishing. Micheal O'Guiheen, 'the Poet' of the book, was the son of Peig Sayers, who wrote 'An Old Woman's Reflections'. But while that was a celebration of the good times, and her son's schoolmate Maurice O'Sullivan's 'Twenty Years A-Growing' was a book of laughing youth, this takes the story to sombre middle age. It tells of sunny times clouded over only ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192813206
SKU
V9780192813206
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99-1
Reviews for A Pity Youth Does not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive ... compelling.
Neil Johnston, Belfast Telegraph, 24/6/00
Neil Johnston, Belfast Telegraph, 24/6/00