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The Blaskets, a Kerry
island library / Muiris Mac Conghail. - Dublin : Country
house, 1988. - 172 p. : ill. ; 22x22 cm.
ISBN 0-94617-212-9
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MUIRIS MAC CONGHAIL : […]
Our little cluster of islands,
with the Great Blasket sitting in the middle, is worth visiting
for [many] reasons. Here you can contemplate Ireland or even
turn your back to her an to the busy world for a while and gaze
towards America or up at the vast expanse of the Atlantic sky
for hours. But the special attribute of the Great Blasket is
the literary legacy left by its people : there is a small
but important « library » of books written
by the Islanders in their native Irish. Some of these books are
now available also in English, German, French, Czech and Swedish.
Not all of these books are of equal merit, but taken together
they represent an extraordinary collective literary achievement.
How did a small island fishing community off the south-west coast
of Ireland come to produce these books in a language that was
hovering even then between life and death ?
[…]
This book tells the story of
how the village in the centre of that cluster of islands came
to produce a library of books. The island community was just
on the verge of change from a traditional oral culture to a modern
literate one. The community, as if they were aware of their culture
was waning, began to record aspects of that culture and express
themselves creatively in writing.
[…]
☐ Preface, p. 11
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| CONTENTS |
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I - The Blasket islands
- The Blasket archipelago
- The village and islanders
- The island economy
PART II - The Blasket library
- Tomás Ó Criomhthain
and outside influence
- Muiris Ó Súilleabháin
and George Thomson
- Peig Sayers
Genealogical charts
Bibliography
Index
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COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
| - Muiris Mac Conghail, « The Blaskets : people and literature » (originally published as The Blaskets : a Kerry island library), Dublin : Country House, 1994, 2001
| | Les îles Blasket | - Robin Flower, « The
western island, or, The Great Blasket », Oxford :
Oxford university press, 1978
- Séan O'Crohan [Seán Ó Criomhthain], « A day in our life », Oxford :
Oxford university press, 1992
- Tomás O'Crohan [Tomás
Ó Criomhthain], « Island
cross-talk, pages from a Blasket island diary »,
Oxford, 1986
- Tomás O'Crohan [Tomás
Ó Criomhthain], « L'homme
des îles », Paris, 1994
- Micheál O'Guiheen, « A
pity youth does not last », Oxford : Oxford univeristy
press, 1981
- Séamus Ó'Scannláin (ed.), « Poets and
poetry of the Great Blasket = Filí agus filíocht an Bhlascaoid Mhóir »,
Cork : Mercier press, 2003
- Elisabeth O'Sullivan [Eibhlís
Ní Shúilleabháin], « Lettres de la
Grande Blasket », Brest : editions-dialogues.fr, 2011
- Maurice O'Sullivan, « Vingt ans de jeunesse »,
Rennes, 1997
- Peig Sayers, « Peig : Autobiographie d'une grande
conteuse irlandaise », Le Relecq-Kerhuon :
An Here, 1999
- Pádraig
Tyers (ed.), « Blasket memories : the life of an Irish
island community », Cork : Mercier press, 1998
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| mise-à-jour : 21 février 2011 |
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