Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'sullivan

Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'sullivan

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without any thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales which he heard from his grandfather and sharpened by his own lively imagination. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands, and has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished.

I was fascinated by the language of the book, originally written in Irish: much of the idiom of that language had been retained in the English Translation * Paul Buttle - The Independent *
Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive.. compelling. * Neil Johnston, Belfast Telegraph, 24/6/00 *

O'Sullivan, Maurice: - Maurice O'Sullivan has engineered the physical layer of optical transmission for more than 30 years, at first in the optical cable business, developing factory-tailored metrology for optical fiber, but, mainly, in the optical transmission business developing, modeling and verifying physical layer designs and performance of Nortel's (now Ciena's) line and highest rate transmission product including the first commercial 10 Gb/s system, several commercial terrestrial line systems, the first commercial DSP assisted electric field modulation transceiver with complete electronic compensation for optical dispersion and the first commercial coherent 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s transceivers. Now with Ciena, Maurice is engaged in the design of successive generations of flexible high capacity multi-rate coherent transceivers including 50G/100G/200G, 100G/.../400G, and 200G/.../800G products. Maurice is a Ciena Fellow with more than 45 patents and holds a Ph.D. in physics (high resolution spectroscopy) from the University of Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9780192813251
ISBN 10	0192813250
Title	Twenty Years A-Growing
Author	Maurice O'sullivan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1983-02-17
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.