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Description:An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island is a voluminous social history of the abandoned Great Blasket Island, off the wild south west coast of Ireland, which touches on its history, culture and folklore. Written in Irish by Micheal de Mordha and published by Coisceim as Sceal agus Dan Oileain, it has now been translated into English for the first time by Gabriel Fitzmaurice. This is an enthralling story of a remote insular community's fight against the authorities, the elements and meagre survival on land and sea.It's the story of the struggle for existence and independence, of privations, poverty and persecution. On 17 November 1953, theremaining twenty two souls on Great Blasket were migrated to the mainland, at Dunquin and elsewhere, by the de Valera government of that time, thus ending a continuous pattern of habitation from ancient times."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island. To get started finding An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 1910742147

Description: An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island is a voluminous social history of the abandoned Great Blasket Island, off the wild south west coast of Ireland, which touches on its history, culture and folklore. Written in Irish by Micheal de Mordha and published by Coisceim as Sceal agus Dan Oileain, it has now been translated into English for the first time by Gabriel Fitzmaurice. This is an enthralling story of a remote insular community's fight against the authorities, the elements and meagre survival on land and sea.It's the story of the struggle for existence and independence, of privations, poverty and persecution. On 17 November 1953, theremaining twenty two souls on Great Blasket were migrated to the mainland, at Dunquin and elsewhere, by the de Valera government of that time, thus ending a continuous pattern of habitation from ancient times."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island. To get started finding An Island Community: The Ebb and Flow of the Great Blasket Island, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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