Island Cross-Talk
O'Crohan, Thomas / O'Crohan, Tom??s / O'Crohan, Tomas
Written between 1919 and 1923, this was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Drawing on a rich oral tradition, it sowed the seeds for the extraordinary flowering of literature that made the islands famous throughout the world.These sketches from Tom¿O'Crohan's diary evoke the beauty and the dangers of the Great Blasket and the sea, and recall the wit and the friendships th...