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The Islandman: The Hidden Life of Tomás O'Crohan

The Islandman: The Hidden Life of Tomás O'Crohan

Lucchitti, Irene
Maher, Eamon

Paperback

Series: Reimagining Ireland, Book 3

Biographies GeneralGeneral ReferenceAnthropology

ISBN10: 3039118374
ISBN13: 9783039118373
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Dec 22 2008
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book concerns Tomás O'Crohan of the Blasket Islands and offers a radical reinterpretation of this iconic Irish figure and his place in Gaelic literature. It examines the politics of Irish culture that turned O'Crohan into The Islandman and harnessed his texts to the national political project, presenting him as an instinctual, natural hero and a naïve, almost unwilling writer, and his texts as artefacts of unselfconscious, unmediated linguistic and ethnographic authenticity. The author demonstrates that such misleading claims, never properly scrutinised before this study, have been to the detriment of the author's literary reputation and that they have obscured the deeply personal and highly idiosyncratic purpose and nature of his writing.

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