num_pages: 287
description: O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation. - Sean O'Faolain, The Listener.Introductory Note by E. M. Forster.
language: English
title: Twenty Years A-Growing
titlecomplete: Twenty Years A-Growing
genres: Biography, Classics, Ireland, History, Autobiography, Irish Literature, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 507
places: An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket
publisher: J.S. Sanders Books