Meini: The Blasket Nurse

by Leslie Matson and Michael Kearney

Book Overview

First published in 1996. This is the captivating life story of a remarkable woman, M in Dunlevy. Born in Massachusetts of Kerry parents, M in was reared in her grandparent's house in Dunquin. When she was nineteen, she eloped with an island widower to the Great Blasket, a remote island off the coast of Kerry, Ireland, where she worked as a nurse and midwife for thirty-six years. Returning widowed to Dunquin, she died in 1967,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856351335
• ISBN13: 9781856351331
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"