The Blasket Islandman The Life and Legacy of Tom?s ? Criomhthain【電子書籍】[ Gerald Hayes ]

＜p＞Tom?s ? Criomhthain (1856?1937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, ＜em＞Allagar na hInise＜/em＞ and ＜em＞An tOile?nach＜/em＞, are acknowledged classics. But he was a highly unlikely author. He lived his entire life on the isolated and now-abandoned Great Blasket, in a house he built with his own hands using stones he found on the island. Likewise, he crafted a valuable literary heritage out of island life. With indefatigable persistence, he steadily built on his modest formal education, learning to read and write in Irish during middle age while simultaneously expanding his knowledge of literature and history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Scholarly visitors were impressed with Tom?s's observations of his tiny community. They encouraged him to commit his stories and memories to paper. He wrote three first-person accounts of his experiences, bequeathing to us a captivating saga of a folk culture doomed by difficult circumstances. His works are among the first examples of I．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る