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From the Great Blasket to America Michael Carney
From the Great Blasket to America
Michael Carney
A first-person saga, recounting one man's life but relating the experience of many. Mike Carney, the oldest living native Blasket Islander, left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually America. This memoir is the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders, incl Tomas O'Crohan, Micheal O'Sulleabhain and Peig Sayers.
224 pages, B&W photos
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 12, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9781848891654 |
| Publishers | Gill |
| Pages | 220 |
| Dimensions | 127 × 200 × 18 mm · 244 g |