A pity youth does not last : reminiscences of the last of the great Blasket Island's poets and storytellers / Micheal O'Guiheen, translated from the Irish by Tim Enright.
By: O'Guiheen, Micheál.
Material type:
BookSeries: Oxford paperbacks.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982Description: xxi, 137 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 019281320X.Subject(s): O'Guiheen, Micheál | Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography
| Blasket Islands (Ireland) -- BiographyDDC classification: 941.96 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 941.96 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00033210 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Michéal O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, "the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers." The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping of civilization across the three miles separating the islands from County Kerry, and the sadness of leaving the Great Blasket for the last time.
Youth and School -- New Houses being built on the Island -- The Comet -- The Day of the Auction on the Island -- Living in the new House -- How I got Thrush -- The Mackeral Season -- A Day's Hunting and Peevishness -- Shrovetide and the great Commotion -- Bad News - The Death of Nell Mhor's little Girl -- The Great War -- Sitting on the Bank of the Strand -- How the Warship came to the Island -- The coming of Donall O'Sullivan -- The Rising -- My term at School finished -- How the Volunteer came on the run to the Island -- The British Soldier on Ballymullen Bridge and how he let the Islandman go ahead -- How Cait came home from Limerick and how we scattered from one another -- How Padraig came home from America and took my Sister Eibhlin back with him -- The great Change that came over the Minds of the People on the Island and how I went to America myself -- The Strangers on the Island -- I'm thinking sadly about the life that is gone -- A change in my life again -- How life went to the bad on the Island -- How the Islanders were clearing off and settling down on the Mainland -- The big Aeroplanes and the Fright they gave the Women of the Island the first time they say them -- Paidin Mhuiris comes home from England -- My Mother's good advice to me -- The death of Sean Dhiarmaid - The Wake and the Trouble that followed putting him into God's ground -- How a person's life passes away -- Thinking to myself -- Selections from Coinnle Corra.
Translation of: Is truagh na fannan an oige.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Youth and School
- 2 New houses being built on the Island
- 3 The Comet
- 4 The day of the Auction on the Island
- 5 Living in the new House
- 6 How I got Thrush
- 7 The Mackerel season
- 8 A Day's Hunting and Peevishness
- 9 Shrovetide and the Great Commotion
- 10 Bad news - The Death of NellMhor's little Girl
- 11 The Great War
- 12 Sitting on the Bank of the Strand
- 13 How the Warship came to the Island
- 14 The Coming of Donall O'Sullivan
- 15 The Rising
- 16 My Term at School Finished