Aranmen All.
Author: O’FLAHERTY, Tom.
Dingle: Brandon, 1991 (reprint). 192 pages. Paperback.
Tom O’Flaherty, older brother of Liam, was born and reared on Inis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands, and his stories bring to life the world of Aran at the turn of the century. Almost every page is dominated by the sea, with its harvests of fish, seaweed and the flotsam and jetsam of shipwrecks, and with its constant threats of storm and drowning. There are stories, too, about eviction, land war, emigration and return.
Tom O’Flaherty, whose brother Liam was the author of The Informer, Famine, and many other books, left Ireland in the early years of the century for America A socialist and republican, he was a comrade in the US of James Larkin, John Reed and James Cannon Writing fluently in both Irish and English, he contributed to newspapers, including An tEireannach. He returned to Ireland where he died on Inis Mor in 1936.
Contents:-
Mackerel Nets
The Black Colt
From the Rock of Perdition
The Liomhan Mor
A Legal Interlude
An Eviction
My First Suit
The Kelp Burners
The Dwellers in the Cliffs
Wrack
The Little Wave
Going Away
Coming Home
The Western Gateway
The Meat Eaters
Home at Last
Tom O’Flaherty, A Biographical Note
ISBN: 0863221238