A Day in Our Life.
Author: O’CROHAN, Sean.
Oxford University Press, 2000. 149 pages. Paperback.
The island of the Great Blasket lies three miles off the Kerry coast of Ireland, at the westernmost tip of Europe. Virtually unknown before this century, it was to produce a rich and extraordinary flowering of literature that has made it famous throughout the world.
One of those who wrote about life in that remote community was Tomas O’Crohan, author of The Islandman. A Day in Our Life, by his son Sean, forms an epilogue to the story of the Gaelic-speaking Blasket, for it tells how, in its dying days, the islanders settled on the mainland.
Sean provides vivid sketches of West Kerry after the Second World War, surveying the mainland scene with the ironical eye of the islander. He writes with robust humour and an immediacy that derives from the oral tradition from which he came. His are the flesh and blood characters, like Bod, Com, and the Captain, who after a long night at sea come alive again to drink, dance, and play the fiddle.
ISBN: 0192831194
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