Author Description

O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author. Library Journal It is a summer island of romantic beauty that he shows us, dwelling always on the colour of the scenery and the bright, wild life... London Times Literary Supplement This natural and beautiful book brings a breath of sea air and a strange music...It is as alive and sparkling as the sea on a summer morning. The Observer A book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete. Irish Independent You cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation... The Listener --This text refers to the Paperback edition. This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelicspeaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.