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As gaeilge in iomlán atá an leabhar ( the book is in the Irish language only) Published in English as Twenty Years a Growing.
Previous owner's name on front endpages, no underlining. The back cover is creased.
This is the 1995 printing, of the fourth published edition. The book has rarely been out of print since the first publication, as gaeilge , in 1933. .
Is é Seoirse Mac Thomáis a chuir eagrú ar an eagrán seo. Foilsithe ag An Sagart, Maigh Nuad.
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales which he heard from his grandfather and sharpened by his own lively imagination. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world.
