The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

Blasket Island Storytellers (1x31)

Air date: Oct 31, 2016

Journey to the rural southwest corner of Ireland, where the Blasket Islands lie on the edge of the wide Atlantic. There, a series of writers flourished in parallel with the high Modernism of Yeats, Lady Gregory, and Joyce. Meet several of these writers and learn about the region’s vanishing mode of life.