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    1. [IRL-KERRY] Dingle Peninsula/ Blasket Islands/Dunquin
    2. Declan O'Connor
    3. Today's " Irish Independent" carries a book review of " From the Great Blasket to America"..author..Michael ( Mike) Carney..born..1920, who, at 26, moved to Massachusetts. The review quotes him.." Some people cannot get the island out of their system. I think about it every day and still dream about it at night. I am an islandman at heart, and will be until the day I die." The review was very favourable, and tells us that the book is available free p&p on kennys.ie. The price is euro 13...or about $10.. The title of the review is.." Darragh McManus on a spellbinding memoir of a boyhood on the Blaskets " This deserted 6-island archipelago continues to generate connected-literature... DEC.....

    05/11/2013 05:16:10