<p>This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.<br>Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O'Crohan's autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929.<br>This edition is based on Professor Sean O Coileain's definitive 2002 Irish ...