A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers by Micheál O'Guiheen, Tim Enright

A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers

Micheál O'Guiheen, Tim Enright

160 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction memoir adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Micheal O\'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, "the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers." The last of the Blasket\'s celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping of civilization acro...

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