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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Ghuithín, Máire (1986). Bean an Oileáin. Dublin: Coiscéim. [Kerry/Blasket Islands] Ní Mhioncháin, Máiréad (1999). Verling, Máirtín (ed.). Béarrach Mná...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    further inland. The nearby Puffin Island is another seabird colony. The Skelligs, along with some of the Blasket Islands, constitute the most westerly part...
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    ISBN 978-1-84488-045-4 "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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    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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