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The Western Island, or the Great Blasket by Robin Flower

The Western Island, or the Great Blasket

Robin Flower
154 pages
Oxford University Press
Mar 1978
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The Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies) , and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket's history when the flying galleons of the Spanish Aramada were destroyed on its coast.
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