Books: Dingle to Dublin

TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING—Maurice O'Sullivan—Viking ($2.50).

Maurice O'Sullivan was born and bred in the Great Blasket, a small Gaelic island just northwest of the coast of Kerry, "where the storms of the sky and the wild sea beat without ceasing from end to end of the year and from generation to generation against the wrinkled rocks which stand above the waves that wash in and out of the coves where the seals make their homes."

Did you ever hear how the life of man is divided? Twenty years a-growing, 20 years in blossom, 20 years a-stooping,...