Twenty Years A-Growing

“Maurice O’Sullivan was born in 1904 on a remote island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland – the Great Blasket. In this classic book (here translated from the Irish) he tells the story of his youth, and of a way of life which belongs to the past. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any thought of a wider public, in a style derived from folk-tales which he heard from his grnadfather and sharpened with his own lively imagination.”