Publisher's Synopsis
Written originally in Irish by Mchel de Mrdha and published by Coiscim as Scal agus Dn Oilein, this is the first English language edition of this title. This is an enthralling story of a remote insular community's fight against the authorities. On 17 November 1953, the remaining twenty two souls on Great Blasket were migrated to the mainland by the de Valera government of that time, thus ending a continuous pattern of habitation from ancient times. This is the story of the struggle for existence and independence, of privations, poverty and persecution.
