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Caisleain Oir

Caisleain Oir

Ó. Grianna, Séamus

Paperback

RomanceHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1856352781
ISBN13: 9781856352789
Publisher: Mercier Pr
Published: Dec 1 1999
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Though it is more than seventy years since it was first written, Caisleáin Óir, Séamus Ó' Grianna's best-known novel, still has the power both to touch the heart with its story of the blighting of young love and to delight the ear with the excellence of its idiomatic Irish.

The story of Séimí Phádraig Dubh and his sweetheart Babaí Mháirtí n growing up at the turn of the century in the rocky peninsula of Rannafast in the Rosses of Donegal is one of bitter sadness, as they are deprived by fate and economic necessity of the magic glimpsed as children:

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