num_pages: 128
description: In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order.
language: English
title: The Cripple of Inishmaan
titlecomplete: The Cripple of Inishmaan
characters: Helen McCormick, Eileen Osbourne, Johnnypateenmike, Kate Osbourne, Billy Claven
genres: Fiction, Plays, 20th Century, Theatre, Humor, Classics, Ireland, Drama, Irish Literature, School
ratings_count: 3220
places: Aran Islands
publisher: Vintage