Twenty years a-growing / Maurice O'Sullivan ; rendered from the original Irish with a preface by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson ; with an introductory note by E.M. Forster
2000, 26th Edition. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press. Very good paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Slight creasing, tanned pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #466997
ISBN: 0192813250
Series; Oxford paperbacks. Physical description; xiv, 298 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Translation of Fiche blian ag fás. First published by Oxford University Press 1953. Contents; In Dingle -- My first journey home -- The island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in the Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Dingle east -- The city of Dublin -- The civic guard -- Connemara -- Conclusion. Subjects; Ó Súileabháin, Muiris. Blasket Islands (Ireland). Social life and customs. Blasket Islands (Ireland). Biography. Ireland. Social life and customs. 20th century. Memoirs. Folklore. Ireland.
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