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Muiris Ó Súilleabháin

Born

in An Blascaod Mór, Ireland

February 19, 1904

Died

June 25, 1950

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (a.k.a. Maurice O'Sullivan) (19 February 1904 – 25 June 1950) became famous for his memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island off the western coast of Ireland, Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a-Growing), published in Irish and English in 1933. As one of the last areas of Ireland in which the old Irish language and culture had continued unchanged, the Great Blasket Island was a place of enormous interest to those seeking traditional Irish narratives. Ó Súilleabháin was persuaded to write his memoirs by George Derwent Thomson, a linguist and professor of Greek who had come to the island to hear and learn the Irish language. Thomson edited and assembled the memoir, and arranged for its translation into English w ...more

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	The first four chapters of "Twenty Years Growing": an attempted translation by Scoláire Bocht by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Scoláire Bocht (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antiquities of Rural Ireland by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Liam Downey, Dara Downey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiche Blian Ag Fás [Twenty Years a Growing]. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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