"Modernity's edge: Speaking silence on the Blasket Islands". New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. " "The Islander": A More Provocative Tomás O'Crohan". "The Islandman: the hidden life of Tomás O'Crohan". The Like of Us Will Never Be Again" A Comparative Analysis of the Contributions of the Blasket Authors: Peig Sayers, Tomás O Criomhthain, and Muiris O Suilleabhain (Thesis). O'Donnell, Kelly Frances (14 April 2011).Islandman Translated: Tomás O'Crohan, Autobiography and the Politics of Culture (PhD thesis). "Orality and Agency: Reading an Irish Autobiography from the Great Blasket Island" (PDF). I have written minutely of much that we did, for it was my wish that somewhere there should be a memorial of it all, and I have done my best to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be again. The Flower translation of the text concludes with a statement whose final clause is well known and often quoted in Ireland: Traditionally viewed as more a cultural ethnography than a work of literary merit, this stance has been challenged in recent times by scholars such as Mark Quigley. A result of Ó Criomthain's letter-writing style, the book is noted for its brevity and lack of portrayal of the author's emotions. Ó Ceallaigh then convinced Ó Criomhthain to write his life story and best-known work, An t-Oileánach.
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Once persuaded, Ó Criomhthain sent Ó Ceallaigh a series of daily letters for five years – a diary – which the latter forwarded to scholar and writer Pádraig "An Seabhac" Ó Siochfhradha for editing for publication. Ó Ceallaigh overcame Ó Criomhthain's initial reluctance by showing him works by Maxim Gorky and Pierre Loti, books describing the lives of peasants and fishermen, to prove to Ó Criomhthain the interest and value of such a project. He began to write down his experiences in diary-letters in the years after World War I, following persistent encouragement by Brian Ó Ceallaigh from Killarney.
Containing portrayals of a unique way of life, now extinct, they are of great human, literary, linguistic, and anthropological interest. His books - An tOileánach in particular - are considered classics of Irish-language literature, and central texts of the corpus of the Gaelic Revival.
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