The Blasket Islands (Irish: Na Blascaodaí) are an uninhabited group of islands off the west coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The...
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The Great Blasket (Irish: An Blascaod Mór) is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, Ireland. It was home to a small fishing community of...
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the village with the main island of the Blasket Islands. There is dramatic cliff scenery, with a view of the Blasket Islands, where Peig Sayers lived....
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Inishvickillane (category Blasket Islands)
Aoibhleáin meaning 'Mac Killane's island') is one of the Blasket Islands of County Kerry, Ireland. Referred to by Blasket islanders as "The Inis", Inishvickillane...
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Astola Island, Pakistan A majority of the Barra Isles, the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The most famous of these is Barra Head. Blasket Islands in County...
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longitude 10° 39.7' Tearaght is the westernmost of the Blasket Islands, and thus the westernmost island of Ireland. It is also one of the westernmost points...
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Tomás O'Crohan (category Blasket Islands)
Irish-speaking Great Blasket Island near the coast of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. He wrote two Irish-language books, Allagar na h‑Inise ("Island Cross-Talk")...
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Head is a well-known landmark and viewpoint, with a full view of the Blasket Islands. On 11 March 1982, the Spanish container ship, Ranga, was wrecked at...
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friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein's. He first visited Na Blascaodaí (the Blasket Islands) off the west coast of Ireland in 1923. Mac Tomáis, as he quickly became...
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characterised by bays, sea cliffs, beaches and many small offshore islands, of which the Blaskets and the Skelligs are the most notable. The county's peninsulas...
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his Irish language teacher on the Blasket Islands, and wrote a memoir, The Western Island; Or, the Great Blasket (1944), illustrated by his wife Ida...
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included stints as a teacher, butcher, bouncer, ferry driver around the Blasket Islands, ringmaster with Duffy's Circus, singing on Charity You're a Star,...
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Irish offshore islands decreased dramatically during the Irish famine and the period following it. Since then the trend on most islands has been a decreasing...
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Inishtooskert (category Blasket Islands)
in Irish) is the northernmost of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland. The Irish name means "northern island" and the English name is a phonetic...
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moved to the Great Blasket Island after her brother arranged for her to marry Pádraig Ó Guithín, a fisherman and native of the island, on 13 February 1892...
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includes the following areas: On and around the Dingle Peninsula: Blasket Islands special area of conservation An Abha Mhór river valley and the Conor...
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memoirs from Corca Dhuibhne and the surrounding islands, and particularly the memoirs of Great Blasket Island seanchaithe Tomás Ó Criomhthain, novelist Flann...
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features a list of islands sorted by their name beginning with the letter T. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of islands (by country)...
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and the Faroe Islands. The Blasket Islands off the Irish coast of County Kerry saw a serious decline due to harvesting. Until the islands were abandoned...
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Beiginis (category Blasket Islands)
island') is one of the Blasket Islands of County Kerry, Ireland. It is a low-lying island (14 metres high) with an area of 13.8 hectares in Blasket Sound...
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peninsula and, to the west, the lofty Blasket Islands, a complex archipelago studded with reefs. Recalde steered to the islands in search of shelter, riding on...
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is a National Monument on Great Blasket Island, Ireland. Rinn an Chaisleáin is located directly north of Great Blasket's "Lower Village", to the west of...
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Ghuithín, Máire (1986). Bean an Oileáin. Dublin: Coiscéim. [Kerry/Blasket Islands] Ní Mhioncháin, Máiréad (1999). Verling, Máirtín (ed.). Béarrach Mná...
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features a list of islands sorted by their name beginning with the letter G. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of islands (by country)...
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Maurice O'Sullivan (category Blasket Islands)
author famous for his Irish-language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, off the western coast of Ireland. Fiche...
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large proportion of the Dingle Peninsula and beyond; for example, the Blasket Islands, Slea Head, Ventry, Dingle Harbour, the Iveragh Peninsula, Skellig...
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October 2020. "A national treasure speaks about spending his 90th on the Blasket Islands, the death of his brother – and why we need to reach out to elderly...
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Wild Atlantic Way (category Tourism regions of the island of Ireland)
Keem Strand Derrygimlagh Cliffs of Moher Loop Head Blaskets View Skelligs Viewpoint Dursey Island Mizen Head Old Head of Kinsale Some of the most popular...
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Henri Mory about 330 nautical miles (610 km; 380 mi) west northwest of Blasket Islands, Ireland. Her next quarry were the ships of convoy OB 318 east of Cape...
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List of archipelagos (category Lists of islands)
Seahorse Islands Bear Island Canadian Arctic Archipelago Akvitlak Islands Arvalik Islands Astronomical Society Islands Bate Islands Belcher Islands Berens...
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