Article
Revisiting the Blasket Island Memoirs
Irish Studies Review
ORCID ID
0000-0002-4966-1251
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Abstract
Excerpt
In 2000, Oxford Paperbacks reissued a set of translations of the memoirs from the Blasket Islands and the nearby West Kerry mainland, written for the most part in Irish between 1919 and the 1960s. The originals form an important corpus of Irish writing from the Corca Dhuibhne (Corcaguiney) Gaeltacht reflecting a way of life which has now completely disappeared, centred on fishing and the salvaging of wrecks of the islands and the Dingle Peninsula.
DOI
10.1080/09670880020032717
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Citation Information
James E. Doan. "Revisiting the Blasket Island Memoirs" Irish Studies Review Vol. 9 Iss. 1 (2001) p. 81 - 86 ISSN: 1469-9303 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james-doan/154/