Micheal O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, "the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers." The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping of civilization across the three miles separating the islands from County Kerry, and the sadness of leaving the Great Blasket for the last time."
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Release
February 18, 1981
ISBN
019281320X
ISBN 13
9780192813206
A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the Great Blasket Island's Poets and Storytellers
Micheal O'Guiheen was the son of Peig Sayers, "the Queen of the Gaelic storytellers." The last of the Blasket's celebrated poets and storytellers, he describes how the isolation of his youth was slowly eroded by the creeping of civilization across the three miles separating the islands from County Kerry, and the sadness of leaving the Great Blasket for the last time."