Publisher's Synopsis
The Blasket Heritage George Thomson, one of the great Greek scholars of the age, visited the Blasket islands, off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1923. Here he learned Gaelic and encountered an extraordinary island community which was briefly to produce a remarkable contribution to contemporary literature, including the classics, Twenty Years A-Growing, The Islandman, and Peig. Island Home. This is his unique account of the island community and its writers.
