An File (The Poet) Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, The Blasket PainterMchel Gaoithn (190474), poet and writer, was born 3 January 1904 on the Great Blasket island, one of the six surviving children of renowned storyteller Peig Sayers and her husband, Pdraig Flint Guithn, a small farmer and fisherman. Mchel Gaoithn became a fisherman after finishing primary school and worked on the family farm until around 1930 when he decided to follow his other siblings to Springfield, Mass., in the USA, in search of work. Lacking a

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won the Guardian First Book Award and the EU Prize for Literature and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards

is still widely read

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