Twenty Years A-Growing
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, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.
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Twenty Years A-Growing
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, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.
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Twenty Years A-Growing

Twenty Years A-Growing

by Maurice O'Sullivanan
Twenty Years A-Growing

Twenty Years A-Growing

by Maurice O'Sullivanan

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Overview

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, The Listener. Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781879941397
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/18/1998
Pages: 287
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.
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