Islanders - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856354725 ISBN 13: 9781856354721

Publisher: The Mercier Press, 2005

Synopsis

Written by one of Ireland's greatest historical and literary figures, socialist, republican and novelist, Peader O'Donnell. 'Islanders' is an epic story of life in a small island community of Donegal.Islanders is a story of epic simplicity, of people who confront in their daily lives hunger, poverty and death.'Islanders would be worth reading merely as a description of the lives of the poor on a wild, barren and beautiful coast, on which two bucketfuls of winkles may be a considerable addition to the wealth of the home … it is also a piece of heroic literature and as we read it we can positively rejoice in the heroism of human beings who can force a living from the rocks and live in charity with one another among the uncharitable stones' - Robert Lynd.

About this title

About the Author

Peadar O’Donnell was born in Meenamore, Donegal in 1893 and trained as a teacher at St Patrick’s College, Dublin.With the outbreak of the War of Independence, he joined the IRA and quickly rose through the ranks. He published his first novel, Storm, in 1925, followed by Islanders in 1928. He went on to publish books like The Gates Flew Open (1932) and There Will Be Another Day (1963). In 1946 he became editor of The Bell and remained as its editor until 1954. He died in 1986.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Mercier Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856354725
• ISBN 13: 9781856354721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126