Hungry For Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland - Hardcover

Moreton, Cole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670892076 ISBN 13: 9780670892075

Publisher: Viking, 2000

Synopsis

From ancient times until 1953, when dramatic events forced them to evacuate, the people of the remote Blasket Islands off the southwest coast of Ireland led a medieval way of life, speaking a pure form of Irish and gathering by turf fires to hear tales handed down from ancient times. Cole Moreton tells the story of the Blaskets through the eyes of the Kearney family, who lived there for generations until 1947 when they paid a terrible price for their isolation-a young man's life. Moreton discovers a few survivors still alive within sight of the Great Blasket, but most had left Ireland for America, settling in Massachusetts. Hungry for Home is a beautifully written and gripping account of a quest for a vanished people, and the Kearneys' incredible journey into the twentieth century is "a moving, atmospheric testament to the mythic lure of home". Entertainment Weekly.

About this title

Synopsis:

Chronicles the events that led the inhabitants of the remote Blasket Islands off the coast of Ireland to abandon their ancient homes and medieval way of life in 1953.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0670892076
• ISBN 13: 9780670892075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304