Twenty years a-growing [ In Dingle -- My first journey home -- THe island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in t he Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The Wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Single east -- The City of Dublin -- The Civic Guard -- Connemara]

Ó Súileabháin, Muiris, 1904-1950 [Maurice O'Sullivan] ; Davies, Moya Llewelyn. ; Thomson, George Derwent. ; with an introductory note by E. M. Forster.

Published by New York, The Viking Press, 1933, 1933

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xii, 303 p. 22 cm. ; LC: DA990.B65; Dewey: 914.196 ; LCCN: 33-20542 ; OCLC: 355514 ; green and beige cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Translation from the original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson." ; Contents : In Dingle -- My first journey home -- THe island -- A day's hunting -- Ventry races -- Pierce's cave -- A shoal of mackerel -- Hallowe'en -- The whale -- The wake -- A night in t he Inish -- The war -- The shipwreck -- The Wanderer -- The lobster season -- Matchmaking -- The wedding day -- An American wake -- The stranger -- My last journey to the Inish -- I leave home -- From Single east -- The City of Dublin -- The Civic Guard -- Connemara ; O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.-Sean O'Fáoláin ; Maurice O'Sullivan was born in 1904 and joined the Civic Guard of the nascent Irish Republic as a young man, but found that law enforcement was not to his liking. While posted in Connemara he wrote a novel, Twenty Years A-Growing, for the entertainment was friends. He drowned tragically in 1950, leaving behind a widow and two children. ; "Here is the egg of a seabird, lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning "--E M Forster ; spine sunned, else VG/VG. Seller Inventory # 006602

Bibliographic Details

Title: Twenty years a-growing [ In Dingle -- My ...

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press, 1933

Publication Date: 1933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Book Type: Book