On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous me

This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life

An account of life on the Blasket Island and on the island's eventual demise.

This groundbreaking book shatters historical stereotypes, demonstrating that, in the century before 1870, Ireland was not an anglicized kingdom and was capable

From Simon & Schuster, The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island is Deborah Tall's experiences while living on an island off the coast of Ireland