Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"Here is rite egg of a seabird -- lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning."
So E.M. Forster wrote in his foreword to the first English edition of this delightful memoir. 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.
Synopsis
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'F ol in, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.