9/20/2023 0 Comments Footsteps of peig sayers![]() " On an Irish Island might be the next great Irish story.A fascinating collection of tales." - Portland Book Review (Oregon) "Perceptive and well-balanced" - Columbus Dispatch "Robert Kanigel's history weaves a ribbon around your heart.Part literature history, part Irish history, and a liberal dash of encroaching modern times make On an Irish Island an escapist magical journey that will crawl into your psyche. Murphy, New York Journal of BooksĪ tale of “hardscrabble but joyful life.” – Rachel Nolan, San Francisco Chronicle. ![]() "An unexpected combination of characters, all treated with dignity and sensitivity." - John L. "Deliciously homes in on the 'singularly severe glory' of the Blasket Islands off the west coast of county Kerry." - Boston Globe The doomed love affair, the dying-what could be more Irish?" - Malcolm Brown, The Daily BeastĪn "impressively researched, greatly inviting history." - Booklist "Scholars and literary types fell in love with Ireland’s Great Blasket Island in the previous century, just when it was in its twilight. "The portraits in this book are classic Kanigel: lively, sympathetic and thoroughly engaging.A mesmerizing interplay of lives and socio-historical contexts." - Kirkus, starred review Yet it is, above all, a compelling tale of ordinary - and often enviable - lives in an extraordinary setting." - Wall Street Journal ![]() as an erudite primer to the works of the islanders as a beautifully assured ensemble biography and as a large-scale portrait of a remarkable time in the history of Great Blasket and the wider world. "A remote setting, a handful of young visitors, a collection of colorful locals, an ancient language and a story that spans half a century: These are but a few of the elements that make Robert Kanigel's On an Irish Island an exuberant and delightful book.
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