A highly valuable document.

From hand to hand.

I like the people and the history form this magic Island
Wir waren 2010 vor Ort , die Insel ist heute unbewohnt, aber damals...
ein paar bilder von dort :
Blasket Island

Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a now vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, '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 again'.

The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.

Lese ich für historisches
Lesechallenge 2016

Der Autor beschreibt seine Kindheit so plastisch, ich meinte mit ihm über die Insel zu springen und Pennys zu sammeln von den Nachbarn und nach Fischerbooten Ausschau zu halten ...oh da ruft, Nein schreit die Mutter 😆😊😊😊
Jedes Strand gut ist nützlich und gestrandete Schiffe bis auf die letzte Plan je gebraucht, alles geteilt...Nein solche Gemeinschaften gibt es heute nicht mehr ...

Thank your for this historical Island document.

Have a nice reading time!

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This arrived in the post this morning along with some beautiful and unique Christmas decorations. :). Thank you Efell

Not my type of book, but I will release it at the Belfast bookcrossers' meetup.

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Thank you, Janine for this 'historical' book which I see has done a lot of travelling! I will try and make sure it travels further after I have read it!

I actually meant to give this to my brother-in-law while passing through Dublin to USA, but it got forgotten, and I left it instead with my hosts in New York. Hope they enjoy it!

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