The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower ideas Hardcover in good condition with

Hardcover in good condition with some tears on dust jacket

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The islandman / Tomás Ó Crohan ; translated from the Irish by Robin Flower ideas Hardcover in good condition withTomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to observe and describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a now vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, 'to set down the character of the people about me