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From The Great Blasket To America
Mike Carney the oldest living native Blasket Islander was born on The Great Blasket Island off the southwest of Ireland in 1920. Raised under challenging circumstances in that unique isolated Irish-speaking community Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually in America. The death on the island of his younger brother without a priest or doctor in 1947 set off a chain of events that led to its evacuation. Mike played a pivotal role in the evacuation personally lobbying Eamon de Valera to relocate the remaining Islanders living in increasingly desperate conditions. Joining the millions who emigrated from Ireland to the United States Mike settled in Springfield Massachusetts with other former islanders. While taking advantage of opportunities offered by his adopted
country he never lost his love for the nation of his birth saying its like loving both parents. This is the story of his life and his efforts to promote Irish culture in America to preserve the memory of The Great Blasket to respect roots left behind and to set down roots in a new land. Written as Mike approached the age of ninety-two this memoir is probably the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders including Tomas OCrohan Micheal OSulleabhain and Peig Sayers. A first-person saga recounting one mans life but relating the experience of many it chronicles a lifetime devoted to family community and legacy. All the while he seems haunted by the immortal words of OCrohan: The likes of us will not be again.
country he never lost his love for the nation of his birth saying its like loving both parents. This is the story of his life and his efforts to promote Irish culture in America to preserve the memory of The Great Blasket to respect roots left behind and to set down roots in a new land. Written as Mike approached the age of ninety-two this memoir is probably the last of a long line of books written by Blasket Islanders including Tomas OCrohan Micheal OSulleabhain and Peig Sayers. A first-person saga recounting one mans life but relating the experience of many it chronicles a lifetime devoted to family community and legacy. All the while he seems haunted by the immortal words of OCrohan: The likes of us will not be again.
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