Meini : The Blasket Nurse
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Meini : The Blasket Nurse
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This is the life story of a remarkable woman, Meini Dunlevy. Born in Massachusetts of Kerry parents, Meini was reared in her grandparents' house in Dunquin. When she was nineteen, she eloped with an island widower to the Great Blasket, where she worked as a nurse and midwife for thirty-six years. Returning widowed to Dunquin, she died in 1967, aged 91. Meini's story, recorded by the author from her own accounts and those of her friends and relatives in Dunquin, is an evocation of a forceful, spicy personality and a compelling reconstruction of a way of life that has exercised an enduring fascination for readers.
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