The Blasket Centre

This was fascinating. The details in our itinerary weren’t very clear. This centre gives the history of the people who lived on the Blasket Islands right up until 1953. Those islands were what I was meant to be seeing from the lookout earlier.

At its peak, the population of the island was about 180 (in the 1920s). Over time, numbers dwindled and in 1953 the islanders were rehoused on the mainland as it had become too dangerous to live on the island.

I cannot imagine living in such a small island, cut off from the world in bad weather. The locals are famous for their writing, as the contributed greatly to Irish literature, that is, in the Irish language.

Fortunately the sea fog lifted a bit. I could get some pictures of what I was meant to see earlier!もっと詳しく