From the Great Blasket to America by Michael Carney, Gerald Hayes

From the Great Blasket to America

Michael Carney, Gerald Hayes

272 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology emotional reflective medium-paced
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Mike Carney, the oldest living native Blasket Islander, was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920. Raised in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community, Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin - and eventually in America. A chai...

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