A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
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Mich al 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:019281320X
ISBN13:9780192813206
Release Date:April 1982
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
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Pity Youth Does Not Last
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
It has been years since I read this book, yet it keeps coming to mind. The author's use of language is exquisite and touching. It is a tale of life in a time and place that can never be replicated. I have never seen the Blasket Islands, nor known anyone from there, yet I feel that I have been there and experienced it as fully as if I lived there in the islands' zenith, which, like the youth referred to in the title, surely could not last in the modern world.
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