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The Loneliest Boy in the World
* 'The Loneliest Boy in the World – he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood – he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age was his uncle who was thirty years older. In this affectionate memoir, Gearóid recalls growing up on the island without a doctor, priest, school, church or electricity. Despite public perception of this small, vulnerable fishing community, he remembers a wonderful childhood, cherished by parents and neighbours. His memories are entwined with the beliefs and customs handed down through the generations and are an insight into life on the Blaskets. He speaks with authority of the difficulties and challenges facing the final generation on the island. The Blaskets, with their deserted, crumbling cottages, will live on, in part due to the invaluable memories of the last child of the Great Blasket Island. • Also available: From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney
Whale Fall
'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell 'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín An Observer Best Debut of the Year 2024 It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villagers steeling themselves for what’s to come. Empty houses remind them of the men taken by the Great War, and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh, salt-stung landscape. When two anthropologists from the mainland arr...
Enough Is Plenty
An emigrant to England in the 1970s, Felicity Hayes-McCoy knew she'd return to Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland's Dingle peninsula, a place she had fallen in love with at seventeen. Now she and her husband have restored a stone house there, the focus for this chronicle in response to reader requests for an illustrated sequel to her memoir, The House on an Irish Hillside. Enough Is Plenty celebrates the seasonal rhythms in and around the author's house and garden at the western end of Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. It is about ordinary small pleasures, such as the smell of freshly baked soda bread, that can easily go unnoticed, and offers recipes from Felicity's kitchen and information on organic food production and gardening. It views the year from a place where a vibrant 21st-century lifestyle is still marked by Ireland's Celtic past and the ancient rhythms of Samhain (winter), Imbolc (spring), Bealtaine (summer) and Lughnasa (autumn). In this way of life, health and happiness are rooted in awareness of nature and the environment, and nourishment comes from music, friendship and storytelling as well as from good food. * Foreword by Alice Taylor * Also by this author: A Woven Silence
A Woven Silence
How do we know that what we remember is the truth? Inspired by the story of her relative Marion Stokes, one of three women who raised the tricolour over Enniscorthy in Easter Week 1916, Felicity Hayes-McCoy explores the consequences for all of us when memories are manipulated or obliterated, intentionally or by chance. In the power struggle after the Easter Rising, involving, among others, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera, the ideals for which Marion and her companions fought were eroded, resulting in an Ireland marked by chauvinism, isolationism and secrecy. By mapping her own family stories onto the history of the State, Felicity examines how Irish life today has been affected by the censorship and mixed messages of the past. Absorbing, entertaining and touching, her story moves from Washerwoman's Hill in Dublin to London and back again, spans two world wars, a revolution, a civil war and the development of a republic, and culminates in Ireland's 2015 same-sex marriage referendum. • Also by this author: Enough is Plenty
Walvistij
Indringend debuut over een jonge vrouw in een kleine gemeenschap, vlak voor het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Voor de lezers van Claire Keegan. Walvistij van Elizabeth O’Connor is een prachtige roman over verlies en vooruitgang. Het is 1938 en voor Manod, een jonge vrouw die op een eiland voor de kust van Wales woont, lijkt haar wereld al te eindigen nog voordat ze een leven heeft kunnen opbouwen. Na de omineuze verschijning van een gestrande walvis op de kust en geruchten over onderzeeërs die de wateren onveilig maken, zetten de eilandbewoners zich schrap. Wanneer twee antropologen van het hoofdeiland arriveren om de gebruiken van de eilanders te bestuderen, ziet Manod een gelegenheid om het eiland te verlaten en het leven te gaan leiden dat ze voor ogen heeft. Maar terwijl ze hen over de kliffen rondleidt, raakt ze verstrikt in hun relatie en haar verbeelde toekomst lijkt buiten bereik te raken. Elizabeth O’Connor heeft met Walvistij een prachtige, verpletterend mooi debuut geschreven over verlangen en verraad tegen de achtergrond van een wereld die zich aan de rand van een afgrond bevindt.
Die Tage des Wals
1938: Auf einer abgelegenen Insel vor der walisischen Küste träumt die achtzehnjährige Manod von einer Zukunft auf dem Festland. Als ein Wal strandet, ist er für die kleine Gemeinschaft von Fischern nicht nur ein schlechtes Omen, sondern spült auch Edward und Joan aus Oxford an, die auf der Insel ethnografische Studien betreiben möchten. Manod ist fasziniert von ihnen und wird, klug und zielstrebig wie sie ist, zu deren Übersetzerin und Gehilfin. Doch was als Zweckgemeinschaft begann, nimmt eine folgenreiche Wendung, als daraus eine Freundschaft wird, die aufgeladen ist mit Hoffnungen und Sehnsüchten. Mit beispielloser Eleganz, Kraft und Poesie erzählt DIE TAGE DES WALS von einer jungen Frau, die ihr Schicksal in die eigenen Hände nimmt.
From the Great Blasket to America
Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, with other former islanders. The death on the island of his younger brother set off a chain of events that led to its evacuation, in which Mike played a pivotal role. This is the story of his life and his efforts to promote Irish culture in America, to preserve the memory of The Great Blasket, to respect roots left behind and to set down roots in a new land. Written as Mike approached the age of 93, this memoir is probably the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders. * Similar to: An Irish Navvy - the Diary of an Exile and The Hard Road to Klondike
An Old Woman's Reflections
Known affectionately as "the Queen of Gaelic Storytellers," Peig Sayers here offers reminiscences of the daily events that made up her life (such as seal catching, collecting turf for roofs, preparing for a funeral wake) alongside the tragedies of drownings at sea, pilgrimages, and the news of the 1916 revolution in Dublin City. It is a unique record of an essential part of the oral Gaelic tradition.
