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Maurice O'Sullivanan

Twenty Years A-Growing

Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,8 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781879941397
23,30 €
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296 Seiten
November 1998
J.S. Sanders Books

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.

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.