Oisin
O’Kelly, Seán T.
Old Irish, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 12.1, nts.1n
Old Norse
O’Leary, Bishop Timothy
Ó Lúing, Seán, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 14.1
Ong, Walter, Orality and Literacy
O’Nolan, Brian
O’Rahilly, T. F.
oral tradition, prl.1, 2.1, 7.1, 14.1
Orwell, George
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (An Seabhac), 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 12.1; editing of The Islandman, 7.4, 9.2; editing of Twenty Years A-Growing, 9.3; Irish language and, 7.5, 9.4; Jimin Mháire Thaidhg, 7.6
Oslo, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 12.1
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan
Ó Súilleabháin, Mícheál, 10.1, 10.2
Ó Súilleabháin, Seánin, 10.1, 10.2
O’Sullivan, Eoghan
O’Sullivan, Máire Llewelyn, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
O’Sullivan, Maurice, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, nts.1n; in Civil Guard, 5.2, 5.3, 9.2, 9.3, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5; death of, 13.6, nts.2n; Irish language and, 9.4; journey to Dublin, 5.4; marriage of, 9.5, 13.7; post-Twenty Years A-Growing writings, 13.8; reviews of, 9.6; George Thomson and, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 8.1, 8.2, 9.7, 9.8, 10.4, 11.2, 12.2, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11, 14.3, 14.4; translation of, 9.9, 10.5, 14.5; Twenty Years A-Growing (Fiche Blian ag Fás), prl.2, prl.3, 5.8, 9.10, 9.11, 9.12, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 13.12, 13.13, 13.14, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, 14.9, nts.3n, nts.4n
Ovid
paganism
“Pangur Ban”
Paris, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 14.1; World War II, 12.1
Parnell, Charles Stewart
Pascal Roy
peasants, see islanders
peat, 6.1, 14.1
Peig (Sayers), prl.1, 10.1
Pheats Mhici, Máire, see Ní Chathain, Máire
phonetics
“Phony War”, 12.1, 12.2
photography
pier, 2.1, 2.2
plants, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Plato, prl.1, 4.1, 9.1; Irish translation, 9.2; The Republic, 13.1
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1; woment depicted in, 1.3
Playboy Riots, 1.1, 5.1
plumbing
poetry, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1; Greek lyric, 5.2, 9.1, 11.1
Poland
potatoes
poverty, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2
Protestantism, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, nts.1n; and Catholic-Protestant divide, 1.3, 1.4; missionaries, 1.5; Soupers, 3.2
publication, Irish-language, 3.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1; of The Islandman, 7.2, 7.3, 9.2; of Twenty Years A-Growing, 9.3; see also specific authors, works, and publishers
púca
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, The
Quebra
Queens College, 9.1, 10.1
Queenstown (Cobh), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
rabbit, 2.1, 6.1; pelts, 6.2
Raheny, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Raidió na Gaeltachta
railroads, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 14.1
rain
Reformation
religion, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2; Catholic-Protestant divide, 1.2, 1.3; early sacred texts, 2.2; Ireland’s conversion to Christianity, 6.1; see also specific religions
Renou, Louis
republicanism, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1; Easter Rising, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 8.2
Rinn na Croise
Rising, see Easter Rising
Rivera, Diego
Roscommon, 1.1, 10.1
“royalty”, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, nts.1n
“rundale” system
Ruskin, John
Russia, 7.1, 9.1; communism, 9.2, 11.1; czarist, 11.2; Soviet, prl.1, 6.1, 11.3
Russian
Ryan’s Daughter (film),
rye
Saddlemeyer, Ann
Saint John’s College, Cambridge
Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth
Saint Patrick’s Day
Sayers, Peig, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 14.1, 14.2, nts.1n; folktales of, 10.6; An Old Woman’s Reflections, 10.7; Peig, prl.2, 10.8
school, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, nts.1n; attendance, 6.4; closing of, 12.1, 12.2
School of Irish Learning, Dublin, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2
Schrier, Arnold, 5.1, 5.2
Scoil an tSúip
Scotland, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 12.1
Scots Gaelic
Scott, Sir Walter
Seaford, Richard
Seal Cove
Second Vatican Council
sex and sexuality, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1; Catholicism and, 8.1; dancing and, 4.2
Shakespeare, William, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1; King Lear, 11.2; Macbeth, 6.1; Richard II, 12.1
Shanachie, The
Shaw, George Bernard, 2.1, 3.1
sheep, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3; shearing, 10.1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheppard, J. T., 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
shipwrecks
Shrove
Sibyl Head
Sinn Fein
Sisters of Providence
Sjoestedt, Marie-Louise, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, nts.1n; background of, 6.4; Celtic Gods and Heroes, 6.5, 12.3; Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, 6.6; Great Blasket visits, 6.7, 8.4, 12.4; Irish language and, 6.8, 8.5, 12.5; review of The Islandman, 7.1; suicide of, 12.6
Slea Head
Socialist Realism
society, see children; customs and social practices; islanders; marriage; men; women; village
“Song of the Fairies”
Sophocles, 9.1, 10.1
Sorbonne, Paris
Spain, 9.1; Armada, 2.1; civil war, 9.2, 12.1
Springfield, Massachusetts, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2
Stagles, Ray
Stalin, Joseph, 11.1, 13.1
Star, The
Steadman, Ralph
Steinbeck, John
Stephens, Edward M.
Stewart, Hugh
Stewart, James, 7.1, 7.2
Stewart, Jessie
Sweden
Swedish
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Synge, John Millington, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1n; Aran visits, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9; background of, 1.10; Great Blasket visits and writings, 1.11, 2.4, 4.2, 14.4; ill health of, 1.12; In the Shadow of the Glen, 1.13; Irish language and, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16; “Notes in Ballyferriter and the Great Blasket Island, August 1905”, 1.17; “On an Island”, 1.18; The Playboy of the Western World, prl.3, 1.19, 1.20, 4.3; relationship to Blasket islanders, 1.21; Riders to the Sea, 1.22
Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe
Tain Bo Cualinge
Talbot Press, 9.1, 9.2
technology, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
telegraph
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, “The Brook”
Thackeray, William Makepeace
theater, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1; Irish-language, 9.1, 9.2; Soviet, 11.1
Thomas, Dylan, prl.1, 14.1
Thompson, Stith
Thomson, Mrs. D. P., 1.1, 1.2
Thomson, Elizabeth, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Thomson, George, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8, nts.1n, nts.2n, nts.3n, nts.4n, nts.5n, nts.6n; Aeschylus and Athens: A Study in the Social Origins of Drama, 11.4, 11.5; background of, 4.4; “Barra na Trá”, 9.3; “The Beginnings of European Civilisation” lectures, 9.4; communism and, 11.6, 13.3; Craven Studentship, 5.3; Moya Llewelyn Davies and, 5.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 11.7; dea
th of, 9.10, 13.4; in Dublin, 9.11, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14; at Dulwich College, 4.5, 5.5; Robin Flower and, 4.6; as Galway professor, 9.15, 9.16, 9.17; “Getting On in the World”, 8.1; Great Blasket visits, 4.7, 4.8, 5.6, 9.18, 9.19, 11.8, 13.5; Greek Lyric Metre, 5.7, 11.9, 11.10; “The Illegitimate Child”, 8.2; Irish language and, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 9.20, 9.21, 9.22, 11.11, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 14.9, 14.10, nts.7n; “The Irish Language Revival”, 9.23; Island Home, 13.9; Mary Kearney and, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 8.3, 9.24, 9.25, 13.10, nts.8n; at King’s College, prl.4, prl.5, prl.6, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.18, 5.8, 5.9, 9.26, 9.27; marriage of, 9.28, 11.12, 11.13, 11.14, 13.11; Maurice O’Sullivan and, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 8.4, 8.5, 9.29, 9.30, 10.2, 11.15, 12.2, 13.12, 13.13, 13.14, 14.11, 14.12; “The Prometheus Trilogy of Aeschylus, with an Appendix on Greek Lyric Metre”, 5.13, 8.6; relationship to Blasket islanders, 4.23, 4.24, 5.14, 9.31, 9.32, 9.33, 11.16, 11.17, 13.15; Studies in Ancient Greek Society, 11.18; translation of Greek classics, 5.15, 8.7, 9.34, 9.35, 9.36, 11.19, 11.20, 11.21; as University of Birmingham professor, 11.22, 11.23, 12.3, 13.16, 13.17; World War II years, 12.4
Thomson, Katharine Stewart, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Thomson, Minnie Clements, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 9.2
Thomson, William
Three Sisters
Thucydides
Tiaracht, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Tír na nÓg, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 14.1
Titanic
Titley, Alan, 13.1, 13.2
tobacco
Tonn Tóime
tourism, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Tralee, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1, 14.1
translation, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1; of Greek classics, 5.1, 8.1, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; The Islandman, 7.2, 10.1, 14.2; Twenty Years A-Growing, 9.6, 10.2, 13.1, 14.3
Trinity College, Dublin, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1
Tripos
Trotsky, Leon
turnips
Twenty Years A-Growing (O’Sullivan), prl.1, prl.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, nts.1n, nts.2n; publication of, 9.4; reviews of, 9.5; translation, 9.6, 10.4, 13.4, 14.5
Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, nts.1n
U-boat sinkings
Uí Aimhirgín, Nuala
Ulster, prl.1; Irish, 1.1
United States, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1; Depression, 9.1, 9.2; imperialism, 13.1; Irish immigrants, 3.2, 5.2, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 8.1, 8.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2; returned émigrés from, 6.7, 10.2; Roaring Twenties, 9.4; Twenty Years A-Growing published in, 9.5
universities, 9.1; Irish language and, 9.2, 9.3; see also specific universities
University College, Dublin, 7.1, 9.1
University College, Galway, 9.1, 9.2
University of Birmingham, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Vendryes, Joseph, 6.1, 12.1
Ventry, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 13.1
Ventry, Lord
Versailles Treaty, 11.1, 11.2
Victorian era
Vikings, 2.1, 2.2
village (on the Great Blasket), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 6.1, 12.1, 14.1; abandonment of, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.2, 14.3; customs and social practices, 1.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.4, 14.5; decline of, 10.3, 10.4, 12.5, 13.3, 14.6, 14.7, nts.1n; dwindling population, 12.6; Robin Flower and, 2.6, 6.3, 10.5, 10.6, 12.7, 12.8; Carl Marstrander and, 2.7, 4.3, 12.9; music and dance, 2.8, 2.9, 4.4, 5.1, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 10.7, 11.1, 14.8; John Synge and, 1.4; George Thomson and, 4.5, 4.6, 5.2, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.2, 11.3, 13.4; see also Great Blasket; houses; islanders; school
Village, The (documentary),
Virgil
von Sydow, Carl, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1
Waley, Arthur
War of Independence, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1
Watermill, 9.1, 13.1, nts.1n
weather, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1, 12.2; changes, 6.3
Webb, Beatrice
Webb, Sidney
Welsh
West, The, 1.1, 8.1
West Dulwich, 4.1, 4.2
West Kerry, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Whelan, Kevin
whiskey
White Strand, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Wodehouse, P. G.
women, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 14.1; dancing, 4.3; as domestic servants, 8.1; emigration, 8.2, 9.2, 12.1, 13.1; hard life stories, 10.4; illegitimate children of, 8.3, 9.3; names, 4.4; The Playboy depiction of, 1.2; Peig Sayers’s folktales, 10.5; sex and sexuality, 2.2, 4.5; Victorian, 1.3; see also islanders
Wood Quay
wool
Wordsworth, William
World War I, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1; end of, 6.1, 6.2; U-boat sinkings, 6.3
World War II, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, nts.1n
Yeats, William Butler, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 8.1, 10.1, 14.1
Yugoslavia
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Áine de Paor: English translation by Áine de Paor of an untitled poem by Tomás Ó Criomhthain originally published in Scriobh, vol. 4 (1979). Subsequently published 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]. Reprinted by permission of Áine de Paor.
The Estate of Maurice O’Sullivan: Excerpt from Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan, translated by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. Oxford University Press, 1983. Reprinted by permission of The Estate of Maurice O’Sullivan.
Mercier Press: Excerpts from Blasket Memories: The Life of an Irish Island Community by Pádraig Tyers, copyright © 1998 by Pádraig Tyers; excerpts from Letters from the Great Blasket by Eibhlís Ní Shúilleabháin and Niamh Leahy, copyright © 1978 by Niamh Bean Ui Laoithe. Reprinted by permission of Mercier Press Ltd., Cork.
Oxford University Press: Excerpts from Island Cross-Talk by Thomas O’Crohan, translated by Tim Enright, copyright © 1986; excerpts from Western Island by Ida M. Flower and Robin Flower, copyright © 1978. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Special Rider Music: “Bob Dylan’s Dream” by Bob Dylan, copyright © 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission of Special Rider Music.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
ill.1: Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane
ill.2: The National Library of Ireland
ill.3: Courtesy of the University of Oslo
ill.4: Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.5: Courtesy of the Flower family and the Blasket Centre
ill.6: Courtesy of Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir and the Blasket Centre
ill.7: Photo by Carl Wilhelm von Sydow © the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin
ill.8: Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.9: Courtesy Professor Margaret Alexiou and Birmingham Archives and Heritage
ill.10: Photo taken by George Thomson, Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.11: Courtesy of the Blakset Centre
ill.12: Courtesy Máire Cruise O’Brien, from her autobiography The Same Age as the State, the O’Brien Press Ltd, Dublin
ill.13: Courtesy Professor Margaret Alexiou and Birmingham Archives and Heritage
ill.14: Courtesy Professor Margaret Alexiou and Birmingham Archives and Heritage
ill.15: © Daniel MacMonagle / macmonagle.com
ill.16: © The Artist’s Estate
ill.17: Courtesy Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha
ill.18: Courtesy Máire Ní Shuilleabháin and Kenny’s Bookshop
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ourtesy of the Blasket Centre
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ill.21: Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.22: Portrait by Harry Kernoff, reprinted Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.23: Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
ill.24: Courtesy Professor Margaret Alexiou and Birmingham Archives and Heritage
ill.25: Photo taken by George Chambers, Courtesy of the Blasket Centre
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Kanigel is the author of six previous books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Harvard Magazine, and Psychology Today. He now lives in Baltimore.
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