The Islandman

The Islandman
Title The Islandman PDF eBook
Author Tomás O'Crohan
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 0
Release 1977
Genre Blasket Islands (Ireland)
ISBN 9780198152026

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Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.

The Islandman

The Islandman
Title The Islandman PDF eBook
Author Irene Lucchitti
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 238
Release 2009
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9783039118373

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This book concerns Tomás O'Crohan of the Blasket Islands and offers a radical reinterpretation of this iconic Irish figure and his place in Gaelic literature. It examines the politics of Irish culture that turned O'Crohan into «The Islandman» and harnessed his texts to the national political project, presenting him as an instinctual, natural hero and a naïve, almost unwilling writer, and his texts as artefacts of unselfconscious, unmediated linguistic and ethnographic authenticity. The author demonstrates that such misleading claims, never properly scrutinised before this study, have been to the detriment of the author's literary reputation and that they have obscured the deeply personal and highly idiosyncratic purpose and nature of his writing. At the core of the book is a recognition that what O'Crohan wrote was not primarily a history, nor an ethnography, but an autobiography. The book demonstrates that the conventional reading of the texts, which privileges O'Crohan's fisherman identity, has hidden from view the writer protagonist inscribed in the texts, subordinating his identity as a writer to his identity as a peasant. The author shows O'Crohan to have been a literary pioneer who negotiated the journey from oral tradition into literature as well as a modern, self-aware man of letters engaging deliberately and artistically with questions of mortality.

The Islandman

The Islandman
Title The Islandman PDF eBook
Author Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 287
Release 1978
Genre Blasket Islands (Ireland)
ISBN 0192812335

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Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now-vanished way of life, written by one who had known no other.

A Day in Our Life

A Day in Our Life
Title A Day in Our Life PDF eBook
Author Seán O'Crohan
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 164
Release 1993
Genre Blasket Islands (Ireland)
ISBN 9780192831194

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Island Cross-talk

Island Cross-talk
Title Island Cross-talk PDF eBook
Author Tomás Ó Crohan
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 228
Release 1986
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780192819093

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Island Cross-Talk, first published in 1928, was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands, that remote, tiny community off the West Kerry coast speaking a dying language. In these pages from his diary, Ó'Crohan jotted down snatches of conversation, anecdotes, descriptions of the landscape and the sea.

The Vanishing World of The Islandman

The Vanishing World of The Islandman
Title The Vanishing World of The Islandman PDF eBook
Author Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 206
Release 2019-11-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3030257754

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Exploring An t-Oileánach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain (Tomás O'Crohan), Máiréad Nic Craith charts the development of Ó Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland. As she probes the appeal of an island fisherman’s century-old life-story to readers in several languages—considering the memoir’s global reception in human, literary and artistic terms—Nic Craith uncovers the indelible marks of Ó Criomhthain’s writing closer to home: the Blasket Island Interpretive Centre, which seeks to institutionalize the experience evoked by the memoir, and a widespread writerly habit amongst the diasporic population of the Island. Through the overlapping frames of literary analysis, archival work, interviews, and ethnographic examination, nostalgia emerges and re-emerges as a central theme, expressed in different ways by the young Irish state, by Irish-American descendants of Blasket Islanders in the US today, by anthropologists, and beyond.

The Books That Define Ireland

The Books That Define Ireland
Title The Books That Define Ireland PDF eBook
Author Bryan Fanning
Publisher Merrion Press
Pages 264
Release 2014-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1908928670

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This engaging and provocative work consists of 29 chapters and discusses over 50 books that have been instrumental in the development of Irish social and political thought since the early seventeenth century. Steering clear of traditionally canonical Irish literature, Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin debate the significance of their chosen texts and explore the impact, reception, controversy, debates and arguments that followed publication. Fanning and Garvin present these seminal books in an impelling dialogue with one another, highlighting the manner in which individual writers informed each other s opinions at the same time as they were being amassed within the public consciousness. From Jonathan Swift s savage indignation to Flann O'Brien s disintegrative satire, this book provides a fascinating discussion of how key Irish writers affected the life of their country by upholding or tearing down those matters held close to the heart, identity and habits of the Irish nation.