Tomas O'Crohan

Tomás Ó Criomhthain (* 1856, on Great Blasket Iceland; ibid † 1937 Thomas O'Crohan ) was one of the last indigenous peoples to the Blasket Islands.

The fisherman and farmer was born in 1856 at Great Blasket Iceland and died there in 1937 In the years 1918-1923 he wrote his first book " Iceland cross-talk ." (Irish Original Title: Allagar na hInise ) wrote that was published in 1928. His second book, " The boats go no more out " (Irish Original Title: An tOileánach ) was also completed in 1923 and published in 1929. Both books have been translated into several languages ​​and are therefore among the most translated books of the Blasket Islands and the most important works of the Gaelic literature.

1957 a stamp was released with the profile of Tomás Ó Criomhthain.

Family

In his book On tOileánach Tomás Ó Criomhthain describes one of his earliest memories of his mother and how he was weaned at the age of four years of breast milk. Ó Criomhthain had four sisters Maura, Kate, Eileen and Nora and a brother named Pat.

Máire Ní With Chatháin, whom he married in 1878, he had ten children. Most of them died before they reached adulthood.

Works

• Allagar na hInise, ISBN 1857911318
• At tOileánach, Cló Talbóid 2002, ISBN 0-86167-956-3

Translations:

• Iceland cross-talk: Pages from a Diary, translated by Tim Enright; Oxford University Press, 1987; ISBN 0-19-212252-5
• The Islandman, translated by Robin Flower; Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1951; ISBN 0-19-815202-7
• The boats no longer go out and translated by Anne Marie and Heinrich Boll; Lamuv Verlag, 2001; ISBN 978-3889773104