
Episodes 6-10/10 (Omnibus)
The outbreak of war changes traditional rural life on The Blasket Islands - off Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. Read by PG Stephens.
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Life on the island changes after the outbreak of war in Europe.
Memoirs and reminiscences of life growing up on The Blasket Islands off Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. The Islands were evacuated after World War II, but prior to that 150 inhabitants lived a traditional, rural life.
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Islands in 1904, before being fostered in Dingle and then returning to his family home on the Irish speaking Island.
It captures a young boy's growth to early manhood on the great Blasket, "a truly Gaelic island which lies north-west off the coast of Kerry". With stories of his friends, family, father and grandfather.
'Did you never hear how the life of man is divided?' says Maurice's grandfather, 'twenty years a-growing, twenty years in blossom, twenty years a-stooping, and twenty years declining."
Written by Maurice O'Sullivan
Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes abridged by Ann Rees-Jones.
Read by PG Stephens.
Producer: Maurice Leitch
First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in August 1977.
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