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Irish island is also a period piece, with attention paid to early twentieth century irish republicanism. The story focuses on a number oflovers of irish culture who go to the island to access pure irish language and become deeply attached to its peopl... Read More
Allagar ná h-inise (island cross-talk) by tomás ó criomhthain, published in 1928. Great details provide wonderful insights and it is a deligthful read. A great sayer of the tomas.
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It does little to flesh out the history and culture of the blaskets and instead focuses on that boring parade of visitors to the island. The state attempts ethnocide now with violence, as its destruction of an entire generation of ethnic musicians in ... Read More
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Kanigel presents a rich interpretive history of the scholars and inhabitants associated with the blasket islands
This was done through developing close relationships and deep friendships with the islanders that carried on for decades
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- This product had a total of 75 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 4 2022.
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Author robert kanigels inspiration for on an irish island draws from the authors honeymoon visit to the blasket centre located in dún chaoin dunquin on irelands dingle peninsula
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An blascaod mór in irish the six blasket islands lie as slivers of paleozoic rock sundered from county kerry in the west of ireland
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Operating on multiple levels on an irish island is at once a history of the blasket islanders whose late occupation of the blaskets goes back two centuries
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Blasket islanders lived on a treeless windswept and hardscrabble island under the constant promise of sea squalls that frequently drenched them
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They raised sheep they hunted rabbits
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They sang and danced they told evocative tales enriched by kindred experience and from those gone before them
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Blasket people were born lyricists and poets
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The blasket islands birthed a cloistered irish dialect replete with lyrical pronunciations and lilt unlike what was found in mainland county kerry
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