Venti anni che coltivano da Maurice O’Sullivan: le memorie e le reminiscenze di Muiris Ó Súileabháin della tradizionale vita rurale dei primi del 20 ° secolo sul grande blasket un’isola gaelica al largo della penisola di Dingle. NB L’intero weekend presenta registrazioni Little Heard come questa richiesta dagli ascoltatori.

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**Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan** (Muiris Ó Súileabháin)

> **** This programme was suggested by Paul Buttle as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra’s All Request Weekend ****

> Memoirs and reminiscences of life growing up on The Blasket Islands off Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula. The Islands were evacuated after World War II, but prior to that 150 inhabitants lived a traditional, rural life.

> Maurice O’Sullivan was born on the Islands in 1904, before being fostered in Dingle and then returning to his family home on the Irish speaking Island.

> It captures a young boy’s growth to early manhood on the great Blasket, “a truly Gaelic island which lies north-west off the coast of Kerry”. With stories of his friends, family, father and grandfather.

> ‘Did you never hear how the life of man is divided?’ says Maurice’s grandfather, ‘twenty years a-growing, twenty years in blossom, twenty years a-stooping, and twenty years declining.”

> Written by Maurice O’Sullivan.

> Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Ann Rees-Jones.

> Read by PG Stephens.

> **** NOTE: The series continues with standalone episodes from this Monday 17th February with the concluding Omnibus on Saturday 22nd February on 4 Extra.

> Producer: Maurice Leitch

> First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1977.

> **** To nominate a programme from the archive that you would like to hear again, please email radio4extra@bbc.co.uk ****

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028338

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028338

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**At the library:**

[Twenty Years A-Growing](https://search.worldcat.org/title/8668873)

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Dylan Thomas wrote a screenplay for the book.
And there is German, Polish, French and other translations. Which is something very unusual for an Irish language book.

I have put the text up here [https://github.com/cavedave/FicheBlian](https://github.com/cavedave/FicheBlian)