On an Irish Island

by Robert Kanigel

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  ———. “L’Irlande d’aujourd’hui.” Revue des deux mondes. In two parts: “Gens de la terre et de la côte,” June 15, 1930, pp. 839–64; and “Dublin,” July 1, 1930, pp. 158–91.

  ———. Review of Tomás Ó Criomhthain’s An tOileánach and Allagar na hInise. In Revue celtique, vol. 47 (1930).

  ———. Review of Peig, by Peig Sayers. Études celtiques, vol. 3 (1938), pp. 156–58.

  ———. Celtic Gods and Heroes. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2000.

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  Stagles, Ray. Unpublished audiotape interview of Mary Pheats Taim and Eileeen Pheats Taim Kearney. Blasket Centre.

  ———. “Blaheen’s Ashes—The Last Rites.” An Caomhnóir, August 1977.

  ———. “A 26-Years Journey to the Great Blasket Island.” Cork Holly Bough, Christmas 1978.

  ———. “Who Was the First? In Search of Blasket Islanders in Springfield, Mass.” Evening Echo, November 24, 1982.

  ———. Blasket Island Guide. First published in 1982 as Day Visitor’s Guide to the Great Blasket Island. Revised and enlarged. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1990.

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  ———. Boccaccio in the Blaskets. Galway: Officina Typographica, 1988.

  Stewart, Jesse. “Memories of the Cambridge Background.” In Feras, ed. L. Varcl, L. and R. F. Willetts, pp. 19–22.

  Symes, David G. “Farm Household and Farm Performance: A Study of Twentieth Century Changes in Ballyferriter, Southwest Ireland.” Ethnology, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1972), pp. 25–38.

  Synge, J. M. “Notes in Ballyferriter and the Great Blasket Island, August 1905.” Unpublished notebooks. Trinity College Dublin.

  ———. The Playboy of the Western World. In Irish Writing, ed. Pierce.

  ———. Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara. London: Serif, 2005.

  ———. The Aran Islands. Sligo: HardPress, 2006.

  Thomas, Dylan. A Film Script of Twenty Years A-Growing. London: J. M. Dent, 1964.

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  ———. “A Report from Mr. Thompson [sic]” to the Academic Council of UCG. Typescript, c. 1932. National University of Ireland, Galway.

  ———. “The Irish Language Revival.” Yorkshire Celtic Studies, vol. 3 (1944).

  ———. Studies in Ancient Greek Society: The Prehistoric Aegean. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1949.

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  ———. Greek Lyric Metre. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.

  ———. Aeschylus and Athens. New York: Haskell House, 1972.

  ———. Marxism and Poetry. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975.

  ———. The Human Essence: The Sources of Science and Art. London: China Policy Study Group, 1977.

  ———. “Note on Wittgenstein.” Typescript, February 1979. Thomson Archives.

  ———. Island Home: The Blasket Heritage. Dingle, Co. Kerry: Brandon, 1998.

  ———. The Blasket Homer/Hoiméar sa Bhlascaod. Radio recording of lectures given by Thomson in Irish and English in 1976. Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1999.

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  “Tragedy of Great Blasket.” Irish Independent, June 13, 1931.

  Tyers, Pádraig. West Kerry Camera. Cork: Collins Press, 2006.

  Tyers, Pádraig, ed. Blasket Memories: The Life of an Irish Island Community. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1998.

  Tzovias, Dimitris. “George Thomson and the Dialectics of Hellenism.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (1989), pp. 296–305.

  Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig. Na Blascaodaí/The Blaskets. Dublin: Stationery Office, Government of Ireland, 1996.

  Uí Ógáin, Ríonach. Notes accompanying Beauty an Oileáin: Music and Song of the Blasket Islands, audio. Dublin: Claddadh Records, 1992.

  Varcl, L., and R. F. Willetts, eds. Feras: Studies Presented to George Thomson on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Prague: Charles University, 1963.

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  Whiston, Steven. “George Thomson and China.” Manuscript of talk given at Colloquium on the Life and Work of George Thomson, January 7, 1989.

  Whitaker, Ian. “Core Values Among the Blasket Islanders.” Folk Life, vol. 24 (1986), pp. 52–69.

  Wilkinson, L. P. Kingsmen of a Century: 1873–1972. Cambridge, U.K.: King’s College, 1981.

  Wilson, David M. The British Museum: A History. London: British Museum Press, 2002.

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  Selected Bibliography in Irish

  EXCERPTS TRANSLATED BY PERSON INDICATED

  Mac Conghail, Muiris. Aghaidheanna Fidil agus Púicíní: Seoirse Mac Tomáis in Éirinn, 1923–1934. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal/Ó Marcaigh. 2009. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ní Ghaoithín, Máire. An tOileaán a Bhí. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta. 1978. [Dáithi de Mórdha]

  Ní Loingsigh, Máiréad, ed. Cin Lae Eibhlin Ní Shúilleabháin [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ní Shéaghdha, Nóra. Thar Bealach IsteachI. Baile Atha Cliath: Oifig an Solathair, 1940. [Pádraig Ó Healai]

  Ó Brosnacháin, Niall. Éist Leis an gCóta. Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2001. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ó Caomhánaiggh, Sean Óg. Fánái. Baile Atha Cliath: An Gúm, 1928. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ó Ceallaigh, Brian. “Ag Tagairt don Leabhar,” introduction to Allagar na hInise. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ó Cearnaigh, Seán Pheats Tom. Fiolar an Eireabaill Bháin. Coscéim, 1992. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Ó Coileáin, Seán. “Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Brian Ó Ceallaigh agus an Seabhac.” Scriobh, vol. 4 (1979). Republished in Tomás an Bhlascaoid, ed. Breandán Ó Conaire. [Joe Nugent, Boston College, and Áine de Paor, in Irene Lucchitti, The Islandman: The Hidden Life of Tomás O’Crohan]

  Ó Conaire, Breandán, ed. Tomás an Bhlascaoid. Indreabhan, Conamara: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 1992. [Áine de Paor, in Irene Lucc
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  Ó Criomhthain, Tomás. “An Guth ar Nóin” and “Radharc na nIontas.” In Bloghanna ón mBlascaod. [Ruth Úi Ógáin]

  Ó Lúing, Seán. Seán an Chóta. Coiscéim, 1985. [Dáithi de Mórdha]

  Seabhac, An. “Ón Eagarthóir.” Editor’s comment, Allagar na hInise. [Ruth Úi Ógáin]

  ———. Translated as “Tomas O Criomhthain, Fisherman and Author.” Bonaventura, vol. 1, no. 1 (1937). [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Thomson, George. “Fiche Blian Ag Fás.” article about O’Sullivan book, Comhar, November 1958. [Ruth Úi Ógáin]

  ———. Gach Órlach De Mo Chroí. Baile Atha Cliath: Coiscéim, 1988. [Ruth Úi Ógáin]

  Uí Aimhirgín, Nuala, ed. Ó Oileám go Cuilleán. Baile Atha Cliath: Coscéim, 2000. [Ruth Uí Ógáin]

  Index

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Aarne, Antti

  Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1

  Aeschylus, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1; Agamemnon, 11.2, 11.3; Oresteia, 4.1, 11.4; Prometheus Bound, 5.2, 8.1, 9.3

  Agostini, René

  agriculture, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1; crops, 6.2; 1849s crop failure, 1.2; land tenure, 2.2, 2.3

  Alexiou, Margaret, 4.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1n

  Alleyn, Edward

  Allgood, Molly

  Almqvist, Bo, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1n, nts.2n

  An Blascaod Mór, see Great Blasket Island

  an Chota, Sean, see Ó Caomhánaigh, Seán

  An Cill, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1n

  An Claidheamh Soluis

  An Dáil

  Anglicization, 1.1, 6.1

  Anglo-Irish War, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1

  An Gúm, 7.1, 7.2

  animals, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 10.1

  An Lóchrann

  An Phoblacht

  An Seabhac, see Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig

  An Traigh Bhan

  Ar Aghaidh

  Aran Islands, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1, 14.1; John Synge’s visits to, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 14.2

  Arbois de Jubainville, H. d’

  Arduni, Kathleen, 9.1, 13.1

  Aristophanes, Clouds

  Atlantic Ocean, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1

  Aughrim, Battle of

  Austen, Jane

  Australia, 5.1, 8.1

  Austria

  Bachtin, Nicholas

  Ballyferriter, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 6.2

  Bancroft, H. H., Native Races of the Pacific States

  Barrington, Richard M.

  Barrington, Thomas

  Beckett, Samuel

  Beginish, 4.1, 4.2

  Belfast, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1

  Belgium

  Bell, Idris, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1

  Bergin, Osborn, 2.1, 6.1

  Berlin, 1.1, 3.1

  Best, Richard Irvine, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, nts.1n

  Bible, 10.1, 13.1

  Binchy, Daniel, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1n

  birds, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1

  Birmingham, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  birth, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1; illegitimate, 8.1, 9.2, nts.1n

  Biuso, Tom, 13.1, 13.2

  Black and Tans, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1

  Black Head

  Blasket Centre, prl.1, 14.1

  Blasket Library

  Blasket Roots, American Dreams (documentary),

  Blaskets, see Great Blasket; Lesser Blaskets

  Blasket Sound, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1

  Blythe, Ernest, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  boats, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1; famine ships, 5.1; modern, 14.1; naomhógs, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 5.2, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.2, 14.3; shipwrecks, 6.5; U-boat sinkings, 6.6

  Boccaccio, Decameron

  Bolshevism

  Book of Common Prayer, 9.1, 10.1

  Boston, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Boyd, Ernest

  Boyd, Valerie, Wrapped in Rainbows

  Boyne, Battle of the

  Breathnach, Mícheál

  Breton

  Briffault, Robert, The Mothers

  British Communist Party

  British Museum, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Brittany, 2.1, 7.1

  Browne, Paddy, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1n

  Bugge, Sophus

  cabbage

  Cahillane, Sean

  Cahircaveen

  Cambridge University, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1

  Cambridge University Press

  Canada, 5.1, 6.1

  Capitol Theatre, Dublin, 5.1, nts.1n

  Carraroe, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  cartoons, 10.1, 10.2

  Casement, Roger

  Catholic Bulletin

  Catholicism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, nts.1n; and Catholic-Protestant divide, 1.4, 1.5

  celebrity and publicity, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1

  Celts, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; mythology, 6.1

  Chamberlain, Neville, 12.1, nts.1n

  Chambers, George, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1n, nts.2n; Great Blasket visits, 10.6; The Lovely Line and Other Verses, 12.5; “The Song of the Island Girl (Eilish)”, 12.6

  Chatto & Windus

  children, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1; declining population, 12.2; illegitimate, 8.1, 9.4, nts.1n; school, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6

  China, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; communist, 13.1

  Christianity, Ireland’s conversion to

  Christmas, 4.1, 5.1, 14.1

  Cicero, prl.1, 4.1

  Civil Guard, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4

  Civil War, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Cladach an Chapair

  Clemens, Sister Mary, see Kearney, Mary

  Clogher Head

  clothing, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1; Anglicization of, 6.2

  Cobh, see Queenstown

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  Collins, Michael, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Common Celtic

  communism, prl.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Congested District Board, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1

  Connecticut

  Connemara, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4; Irish, 1.2, 2.1

  Corca Dhuibhne

  Cork, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1

  Cork, Earl of

  Cornford, F. M.

  Corrib Lodge, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 11.1

  Croatia

  Cuas Fhaill Beag

  Curtin, Jeremiah, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  customs and social practices, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2

  Czechoslovakia

  Daíl

  Daly, Joe

  Daly, Maurice

  dance, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1

  Danish

  Dante, 9.1, 10.1

  death, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1

  de Brún, Pádraig, see Browne, Paddy

  Delargy, Séamus, 14.1, 14.2

  de Mordha, Mícheál

  de Valera, Éamon, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 12.1

  Dickens, Charles

  Dingle, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1

  Dingle Bay

  Dingle Fair

  domestic servants

  Donegal, 1.1; Irish, 1.2, 2.1

  donkeys, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Donne, John

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  driftwood, 6.1, 12.1

  drowning, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1

  Dublin, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 9.
1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1; Easter Rising, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.4, 8.2; population, 5.5; train for, 5.6

  Dublin Magazine, The

  Dublin Opinion, cover of, 10.1, 10.2

  Dublin University Gaelic Society

  Dulwich College, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  Dún Chaoin, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1

  Dunlevy, Méiní, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Dunlevy, Seán

  Dylan, Bob, “Bob Dylan’s Dream”

  Early English Text Society

  Easter Rising, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1

  economy, 12.1, 14.1

  Ediphone, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1

  Edison, Thomas

  Eire, see Ireland

  electricity, lack of, prl.1, 14.1

  emigration, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3; final, 12.2; medical examination, 8.3; process, 8.4; returned émigrés from America, 6.6, 10.2

  England, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1; Anglicization of Ireland, 1.2, 6.1; Anglo-Irish War, prl.4, 3.1, 4.2; colonialism, 1.3, 4.3; Ireland ruled by, 1.4, 1.5, 3.2, 4.4, 11.1; revenue agents, 1.6; War of Independence, prl.5, 3.3, 4.5; World War I, 3.4; World War II, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  English, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2; An Béal Bocht translation, 10.1; influence on local Irish dialect, 6.3, 14.1; The Islandman translation, 7.1, 14.2; Twenty Years A-Growing translation, 9.1, 10.2, 14.3

  Enright, Tim, 7.1, 9.1

  Études celtiques

  Euripides, prl.1, 4.1, 9.1

  fadas (accent marks)

  Fáinne an Lae

  fairy music

  Famine, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Feasta

  Feiritéar, Breandán, 12.1, 13.1

  feis

  Ferriter, Pierce, 2.1, 9.1

  Fianna Fail

  Fianna myths

  fiddle, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1

  films, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1n

  fishing, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2; modern, 14.3

  Fitz Gerald, Joan

  Flaherty, Robert, Men of Aran

  Flower, Barbara, 6.1, 6.2

  Flower, Ida, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1

  Flower, Jean, 6.1, 12.1