- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Currach Press (1 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185607966X
- ISBN-13: 978-1856079662
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 444,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Extraordinary...when I put it down I wasn t sure whether I had seen the film or read the text; the quality of its writing creates an essence which is both viual, oral and literary. The Irish Times --The Irish Times
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Starting on Christmas Eve 1946 with the sudden illness and subsequent death of a young man on the Great Blasket, Hungry for Home tells the story of the eventual departure of the remaining inhabitants from the island in November 1953. The Blasket archipelago, suspended in the Atlantic a few miles west of Dunquin in County Kerry, became famous at the beginning of the twentieth century for its way of life, for the purity and vigour of the Irish spoken by its inhabitants much sought-after by Irish and foreign scholars and most of all for what has come to be known as the Blasket Library , books such as An tOileánach (1929) by Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Fiche Blian ag Fás (1933)by Muiris Ó Súíloleabháin and Peig (1936), by Peig Sayers. When Ó Criomhthain wrote elegiacally at the end of his autobiography: ...mar ná beidh ár leithéidí arís ann... he could not have imagined that within three decades the island would be abandoned to the seals, the gulls and the rabbits. As well as giving a lively account of the history, society and literature of the Blaskets, Cole Moreton seeks out surviving islanders, both in Kerry and in Springfield, Mass, where many of them emigrated, to record their memories.
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A typically well researched and well told story. Cole Moreton skillfully holds objectivity, sensitivity and personal reflection together in a highly readable account of how most the tiny Blasket Island community left a below-the-breadline existence for relative prosperity in America. In exloring the balance between gaining material security at the expense of deep rooted community such wide-ranging issues as family loyalty, conservation of historic culture and identity, and the meaning of 'home'are all brought usefully to light.
A rich and informative read.
A rich and informative read.
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