Caisleain Oir

By Séamus Ó Grianna and Seamus O. Grianna

Though it is more than seventy years since it was first written, Caisle in ir, S amus ' Grianna's best-known novel, still has the power both to touch the heart with its story of the blighting of young love and to delight the ear with the excellence of its idiomatic Irish.

The story of S im Ph draig Dubh and his sweetheart Baba Mh irt n growing up at the turn of the century in the rocky peninsula of Rannafast in the Rosses of Donegal is one of bitter sadness, as they are deprived by fate and economic necessity of the magic glimpsed as children:

A Sh im , goid an cine l tithe iad sin, arsa sise, ag amharc ar na n alta, at os cionn lu na gr ine? T , arsa S im , sin caisle in ir a bhfuil na daoine beaga ina gc na iontu..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856352781
• ISBN13: 9781856352789
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"