Twenty Years A-Growing - Softcover

O'Sullivan here tells the story of his growing up in Great Blasket, a sparse island off Ireland's Atlantic coast with a Gaelic-speaking population. Along with an introduction by E.M. Forster from the original 1933 printing, this edition contains new photos and illustrations by the author. * Library Journal * It is a summer island of romantic beauty that he shows us, dwelling always on the colour of the scenery and the bright, wild life... * Times Literary Supplement * This natural and beautiful book brings a breath of sea air and a strange music....It is as alive and sparkling as the sea on a summer morning. * The Observer * A book to buy, to beg, or to borrow. To miss it is to miss something which will leave your adventuring among books incomplete. * Irish Independent * You cannot possibly fail to enjoy this book, the only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation... * The Listener *

This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelicspeaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.