• On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of Ionad an Bhlascaoid/The Blasket Centre

    The book cover featuring “Children by the Waves.”

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Felix Rust

    Robert Kanigel

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of The Blasket Centre

    Carl Marstrander, near center, fourth from left, with Robin Flower almost directly behind him in a 1910 photo at the School of Irish Learning in Dublin.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of the Flower family and The Blasket Center

    Robin Flower at the time of his first visit to Great Blasket in 1910.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of The Blasket Centre

    Part of a letter, in Irish, from Tomas O Criomhthain to Brian Kelly, who encouraged him as a writer.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of Maire Ni Shuilleabhain and Kenny's Bookshop

    Maurice O’Sullivan and E.M. Forster in a 1932 photo taken in Galway City.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of The Blasket Centre

    Islander Lis Ni Schuilleabhain with her husband Sean and daughter Niamh in about 1938.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of The Blasket Centre

    The cover of Dublin Opinion, June 1936.

  • On an Irish Island Robert Kanigel

    Image Credit: Courtesy of The Blasket Centre

    Visitors and islanders lined up for the camera.

ad