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| "Wouldn't it delight my heart to be able to read a book of my own before I died." |
Tomas O'Crohan (21 December 1856 – 7 March 1937)
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| "Wouldn't it delight my heart to be able to read a book of my own before I died." |
Tomas O'Crohan (21 December 1856 – 7 March 1937)
I do hope he got his wish and that his books were not published posthumously (a word I find very hard to pronounce).
ReplyDeleteWhat depends an Irish edition, his wish in 1928 got fulfilled. The English translation (Island Cross-Talk) was first published in 1986.
DeleteI looked him up. His Great Blasket Island home sounds not unlike Father Ted's Craggy island.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, it does, indeed.
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