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Title: Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton ISBN: 0-14-100194-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Deep Yearning
Comment: The people of the Blasket Islands, off the west coast of Kerry in Ireland, became famous for their storytelling (Twenty Years A-Growing, Peig, and The Islandman), for the purity of their Gaelic and their old Irish culture, and ultimately for the tragic removal of the dwindling population to the mainland. Cole Moreton, in 1998, began researching the history of this removal, digging up old newspaper stories, governmental records, and speaking to the few remaining living Islanders. It's a wonderful, sad, beautifully-written tale, never shrinking from the awful bits, and I came away from it yearning for a homeplace for which I could feel so deeply. (The western suburbs of Chicago just don't cut it...)
Rating: 5
Summary: Blasket Family History
Comment: I read in the Springfield Daily News that an author had written a bookabout life on the Blasket Islands. This tweaked my curiosity becausemy mother's family was from the Blaskets. I mentioned this to myparents who were trying to find a copy of the book. I found 'Hungryfor Home' and ordered a copy for each of us.
I was stunned to findthat the book was about my second cousins. The book vividly describeswhat life on the Blasket Islands was like in the times of prosperitythrough the times of despair. It documents the circumstances thatlead to the evacuation of the island, the journey to America and thelifestyle waiting in America. Those of us enjoying the prosperity ourparents and grandparents made possible should read this book andappreciate the challenges they overcame so that we may have thelifestyle we now take for granted.
This book will be in my familylibrary for generations to come. I thank Cole Moreton for doing theresearch and writing this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Imagery...
Comment: This is a wonderfully written book that captures the beauty of the Irish west coast, the personalities of a unique population of people and a connection to the Irish of America. A great old 1934 documentary called 'Man of Aran', although filmed in Galway, captures on film how the good people of the Blaskets would have lived and worked. Cole Moreton obviously put his heart and soul into researching and writing this story and I look forward to his future projects.
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Title: Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan, Moya L. Davies, George Thomson ISBN: 1879941392 Publisher: J S Sanders & Co List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Aran Islands (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by J. M. Synge, Tim Robinson ISBN: 0140184325 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers, Seamus Ennis, W. R. Rodgers ISBN: 0192812394 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island by Peig Sayers, Bryan MacMahon ISBN: 0815602588 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks) by Tomas O Crohan, Thomas Ocrohan, Tomas O'Crohan, Thomas O'Crohan, Robin Flower ISBN: 0192812335 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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