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Hardcover, published by Country House, Dublin 1987.
The Blasket Islands lie off Slea Head, county Kerry. Great Blasket Island, now uninhabited the largest, was inhabited for thousands of years by a small Gaelic-speaking fishing community. In 1953 the entire population was moved to the mainland. This isolated group had produced seven acclaimed authors and twenty books of as Gaeilge and in English. Muiris Mac Conghail explores the islands both physically ( by journey and exploration, as well as through literature. With a particullarly strong selection of photographs, many from the earliest visits to the island.
Hardback - in very good condition.