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Gaelic autobiographies: a return to the Blasket islands without nostalgia Ciaran Ross In this article we re-examine and question the ideological status of Blasket Island literature. Moving away from the usual emphasis placed on history and memory, we attempt to deconstruct the myth of authenticity in terms of its literary discourse, a discourse that produces and is produced by its subject-author. We first show how the authorial subject was historically and discursively constructed before foc..