Hungry for Home - Softcover
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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Cole Moreton was born in East London in 1967. His first book was Hungry for Home: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland, which was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. He now lives in East Sussex with his wife and four children. He is a writer and editor on the Independent on Sunday.
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- PublisherCurrach Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 185607966X
- ISBN 13 9781856079662
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