islandman

Thomas O'Criothan, Author, Great Blasket

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 14 older comments, and then…
• Mike Grimes said:

  I actually just finished reading his book, as Bearla, 3 nights ago. A most enjoyable read and a fascinating insight into what was a most different way of life to that of the mainland at the time, and so much more to how we live today.

• Foxglove said:

  I have recently read " the islandman"

• Foxglove said:

  and live was certainly tough

• John Spooner said:

  Foxglove I read it in the 1980s while on a cycling tour round Kerry (and most of the west of Ireland). Also Maurice O'Sullivan's Twenty Years a-Growing

• beachcomber australia said:

  Tomás Ó Criomhthain (anglicised as Tomas O'Crohan or Thomas O'Crohan; 21. December 1856–1937) From his wiki article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_O%27Crohan - there is a face-on view wearing the same clothes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Criomhthain.png . Dated as "before 1929", when the front view was published in this online book - archive.org/details/toileachsclbheat00crio