On an Irish island:
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New York
Alfred A. Knopf
2012
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| Beschreibung: | "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 320 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780307269591 0307269590 |
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| adam_text | On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished wav of life,
in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of
The Alan VTho Knezu Infinity and The One Best VPay, tells
the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island
off the west coast of Ireland, renowned during the early
twentieth century for the rich communal life of its resi-
dents and the unadulterated Irish they spoke. With the
Irish language vanishing all through the rest of Ireland,
the Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars and writ-
ers drawn there during the Gaelic renaissance-and the
scene for a memorable clash of cultures between modern
life and an older, sometimes sweeter world slipping away.
KLanigel introduces us to the playwright John Mil-
lington Synge, some of whose characters in The Playboy of
the VPestern Torld were inspired by His time on the island;
Carl JViarstrander, a Norwegian linguist who gave up his
pLace on Norway’s Olympic team for a summer on the
Blasket; Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, a Celtic studies scholar
fresh from the? Sorbonne; and central to the story, George
Thomson, a British classicist whose involvement with the
island and its people we follow from his first visit as a
twenty-year-old to the end of his life.
On the island, they met a colorful coterie of men and
women with whom they formed lifelong and life-changing
friendships. There’s Tomas O’Crohan, a stoic fisherman,
one of the few islanders who could read and write Irish, who
tutored many of the incomers in the language’s formi-
dable intricacies and became the Blasket’s first published
writer; Maurice O’Sullivan, a good-natured prankster and
teller of stories, whose memoir, Tiventy Years A.~Grotving,
became an Irish classic; and Peig Sayers, whose endless
repertoire of earthy tales left listeners spellbound. .
As we get to know these men and women, we be-
come immersed in the vivid culture of the islanders, their
hard lives of fishing and farming matched by their love
of singing, dancing, and talk. Yet, sadly, we watch them
leave the island, the village becoming uninhabited by
1953. The story of the Great Blasket is one of struggle-
between the call of modernity and the tug of Ireland’s
ancient ways, between the promise of emigration and the
peculiar warmth of island life amid its physical isolation.
But ultimately it is a tribute to the strength and beauty
of a people who, tucked away from the rest of civiliza-
kept alive a nation s past, and to the newcomers and
islanders alike who brought the island’s remarkable story
to the larger world.
ROBERT K ANIGEL is the author of six previous
books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grady-
Stack Award for science writing. His book The A an VTho
Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His
work has appeared in numerous publications, including
The New York Times A4dgazine, The New York Times Took
Review, Harvard Magazine, and Psychology Today. He has
just retired as Professor of Science Writing at ZVilT in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now lives in Baltimore.
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