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Island Cross-Talk – Pages From A Blasket Island Diary

Written between 1919 and 1925, `Island Cross-Talk` was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands – that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech to writing, and sowed the seeds of a rich and extraordinary flowering of literature that was to make the Blaskets famous throughout the world. In these vivid, unadorned sketches from his diary, Tomas O`Crohan writes from the immediacy of his experience: the beauty and the dangers of the island and the sea; the hardship, poverty, and hunger; but also the flashes of humour, the friendships, the intensity of life. In 1953 the Great Blasket was abandoned to the seagulls and the silence. Tomas O`Crohan composed his own epitaph, and that of his community, when he wrote `the like of us will never be again`.

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