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The Western Island, or the Great Blasket (Oxford Paperbacks)
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The Western Island, or the Great Blasket (Oxford Paperbacks) Paperback - 1978

by Flower, Robin

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The Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies), and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket's history when the flying galleons of the Spanish Aramada were destroyed on its coast.

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  • Title The Western Island, or the Great Blasket (Oxford Paperbacks)
  • Author Flower, Robin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition REPRINT
  • Pages 160
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 1978-03
  • ISBN 9780192812346

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The Western Island (1985) by Robin Flower
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Some books invite you on holiday. The Western Island invites you on the sort of holiday where the weather is horizontal, the locals are quietly formidable, and your main souvenir is a new respect for turf, tides, and the Irish language. Robin Flower doesn’t so much “travel” as he gently relocates his entire soul to the edge of the Atlantic and then reports back with the calm precision of a man who has discovered that modern life is, frankly, a bit noisy.

First published long before 1985 and then repackaged here by Oxford University Press in that reassuringly serious way OUP does, this is the kind of book that looks innocent on the shelf and then suddenly has you thinking about islands as philosophical conditions. Flower’s western island is one of the… Read more
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The western island, or, The Great Blasket

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by Flower, Robin (1881-1946)

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition, Third Printing. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; wrappers faintly stained. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright and clean. Series; Oxford paperbacks. Physical description; viii, 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. Notes; First published 1944. Maps on lining-papers. Illustrations by Ida M. Flower. Contents; The road to the Island -- The passage: The passage at night ; Toms -- Toms -- A hill-side parliament: Solitude ; Brendan -- The bright dwellings -- The village: The dance -- Peig -- Gobnait -- The Sorrowful Slope -- 'Our Lady of the Rosary' -- Pierce Ferriter -- Sen Dunnl: Poets -- The poor scholars -- Going west -- Inisiclein -- The Seal: The seal -- The fairies. Subjects; Blasket Islands (Ireland). Great Blasket Island (Ireland). Description and travel. Social life and customs. 20th century. Illustrated. Maps.
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