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- Irish Edition
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- English Translation
The Islandman is superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry is both a shocking and captivating read.
Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O’Crohan’s autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor Seán Ó Coileáin’s definitive 2002 Irish language edition. It contains many passages omitted from the previous English language translation from the 1930s, some of which were thought too earthy for the times.
Tomás O’Crohan taught himself to read and write in his own native Irish tongue. He depicts in unaffected, vivid language a very unforgiving landscape of human experience. The Islander reflects life as it was on the Blaskets, raw, real and extremely challenging.
We have both An tOileánach and The Islandman in very good quality paperback editions.