- Tomás Ó
Criomhthain (pronounced [t̪ˠʊˈmˠaːsˠ oː ˈkɾʲɪhənʲ];
commonly anglicised as Tomás O'Crohan and
occasionally as
Thomas O'Crohan; bap. 29
April 1855...
-
Blasket Islanders such as Peig Sayers,
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin and Tomás Ó
Criomhthain.
Kerry is the
fifth largest of Ireland's 32
traditional counties by area...
- (The Islandman) and
Allagar na
hInise (Island cross-talk) by Tomás Ó
Criomhthain, Peig and
Machnamh Seanamhná (An Old Woman's Reflections) by Peig Sayers...
-
Fiche Blian ag Fás by
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin and An tOileánach by Tomás Ó
Criomhthain.
Munster Irish differs from
Ulster and
Connacht Irish in a
number of...
- the well-known
writers of the island,
which includes Sayers, Tomás Ó
Criomhthain, and
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin. In 1588, when the
Spanish Armada returned...
-
particularly the
memoirs of
Great Blasket Island seanchaithe Tomás Ó
Criomhthain,
novelist Flann O'Brien also
chose to
satirize their cliches quite mercilessly...
- Sayers'
second home on the
island has been restored. The home of Tomás Ó
Criomhthain was also
restored by the OPW in 2018 and is now free to
visit by the...
- of the
Blasket Islands and
other remote Gaeltacht locations. Tomás Ó
Criomhthain's similarly censored memoir an tOileánach ("the Islandman", 1929) and...
- Peninsula: Peig by Peig Sayers, An t-Oileánach ("The Islandman") by Tomás Ó
Criomhthain, and
Fiche Bliain ag Fás ("Twenty
Years a-Growing") by
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin...
-
kindly parody of the
genre of
Gaeltacht autobiographies, such as Tomás Ó
Criomhthain's autobiography An t-Oileánach (The Islandman), or Peig Sayers' autobiography...
