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	Ireland Revisited, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Long before what was left of the population of Great Blasket decamped the island in 1953, the number of its Gaelic-speaking natives peaked at 160 during the early part of the 20th Century.
		She was a schoolteacher during the winter and managed the island's tourist "cafe" in the summer.
		Great Blasket was established as a National Historic Park in 1989.
	home.att.net /~nolantravels/97ir6.html (2914 words)

	The Great Blasket Islands off the Dingle Peninsula Coastline
		The Great Blasket Island, separated from the mainland by the Blasket Sound, is by far the largest of the islands and rises to 292 m above sea level.
		Inishtooskert, Inishnabro, Inishvickillane and Tearaght Island are located to the West and South West of the Great Blasket, and, with the main island, rise steeply from the sea.
		The Blasket Islands are of great importance for breeding seabirds.
	www.dodingle.com /pages/blasket_island_trips.html (377 words)

	10/25/98-The Blaskets
		The Blasket Island Centre in a modern museum on the west coast of the peninsula.
		Great Blasket is the largest at 6 by 1.2 kilometres.
		In the twentieth century the number of inhabitants on great Blasket dwindled to a level where it was difficult to sustain the community.
	www.saraphina.com /moseyirl/102598/102598blasket_island_museum.htm (583 words)

	The Kingdom: Island future to be determined by recommendations from forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Councillors were told the work of the Great Blasket Island forum has been completed and that its report has been accepted by government.
		Considerable progress is being made on planning for the new pier on the island and on the extension of the pier at Dún Chaoin, councillors were informed at a meeting on Monday.
		Ownership of the 450-hectare island is held by a number of landowners, which include the company Blascaod Mor Teoranta which owns a large share of the island and a number of small landowners which include the State.
	www.the-kingdom.ie /news/story.asp?j=425 (471 words)

	ireland.com / Services / EXPLORE IRELAND
		The Vikings raided the island twice during the ninth century, but the monks remained until the 12th century when they finally abandoned the island.
		The island was used for weddings during the 16th century, when couples could marry on Skellig Michael during Lent, when it was forbidden on the mainland.
		Small Skellig, the second island in the area, is a bird sanctuary, with 20,000 pairs of breeding gannets.
	www.ireland.com /explore/counties/kerry_a.htm (1119 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Great Blasket Island left to ruin during ten-year legal battle
		Just over 12 months ago, the Supreme Court ruled that an attempt by the Government to develop the Great Blasket Island as a national park was unconstitutional.
		It brought the curtain down on a ten-year legal battle over the ownership of the island, by ruling that it rightfully belonged to a group of landowners who had acquired the island after it was evacuated in the 1950s.
		During this time, little if any preservation work was carried out on the buildings on the island, and the village is now in danger of collapse.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2000/0824/blasket.html (144 words)

	The Blasket Islands on the Southwest Coast of Ireland - Historical Information
		Sadly, the Blasket Island community declined as a result of the persistent emigration of its young people, until eventually the Island was abandoned in 1953 when only 22 inhabitants remained.
		He calls the Islands "Yslas de Blasques" and would have us believe that the inhabitants were all fluent Spanish speakers!) The very fact that the Ferriters controlled these Islands as far back as the 13th Century, and maintained their own castle there, is a clear indication that they were inhabited at an early stage.
		Nevertheless, Island life was a constant hardship and struggle – a three-mile crossing to the mainland, followed by a five-mile walk by road for a priest, or a twelve-mile walk to reach a doctor.
	www.dingle-peninsula.ie /blaskets.html (2609 words)

	The Orcadian Online - A Letter from North Ronaldsay
		All of this got me reading again some of the work of the Great Blasket Island writers who were writing down recollections of their lives around the mid 1930s and earlier.
		And once, in the 1960s, when the island was working hundreds of tons of tangles, island workers threatened strike action for more pay during shipping operations, I remember a formidable delegation striding boldly down to the pier to demand satisfaction from an Alginate Industries manager.
		There are ambitious plans for the future of the island presently being pursued with dedication and effort by numerous folk: young and old, islanders and new islanders, and folk from outwith the community.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/northronaldsay/march2002.htm (2676 words)

	Island Writers by Maria - WriteWords.org.uk
		Peig Sayers of the Blasket Island, one of the great narrators of the wonder-tales of Gaelic Ireland, and a superb natural actress was on her deathbed.
		The Great Blasket is the largest of a group of small islands lying off the south-west coast of Ireland.
		Peig Sayers was born in Dunquin on the mainland in 1873.
	www.writewords.org.uk /archive/1380.asp (2475 words)

	Islanders
		On Christmas Eve 1946, the Blasketers were hit with the danger of isolation when they had to watch a young man die of a fever.
		The Great Blasket pictures in my photo album show the green of the fields, the grey of rocks and ruins, shades of blue (the sky clashing against the water), the muddy white of an army of sheep and the bright yellow of my rain slicker.
		Great Blasket is uninhabited, but from the end of April to mid-September it is possible to stay at the island's hostel!
	www.travellady.com /Issues/May04/79TIslanders.htm (2030 words)

	The Kingdom - 2003/07/24: Dingle - History buffs sail right back in time
		On the Great Blasket life has stood still, there is no electricity, no cars, no television, or phones — only the sound of the sea, the cry of the gulls, unspoilt beaches, extraordinary flora and fauna and a uniquely peaceful atmosphere.
		The great writings are referred to as the "Blasket Library", which includes classics such as The Islandman, Twenty Years A-Growing and Peig.
		The magnificent Great Blasket Centre on the mainland in Dún Chaoin, directly across from the island, is a fascinating interpretative centre/ museum honouring the unique community which once called this remote island home.
	archives.tcm.ie /thekingdom/2003/07/24/story9990.asp (554 words)

	Books from Royal Claddagh by Ray Stagles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Joan and Ray Stagles first visited the Great Blasket Island in 1966, and returned annually as the island and its history became a passion with them.
		Joan died in 1978 and her husband continued her research and writing on the island to produce this testament to the island people.
		The book traces the fate of the Blasket people and the slow erosion of their culture to that sad day in 1952 when the families were evacuated from the Great Blasket Island.
	www.claddagh.com /books/authors.asp?Name=Ray+Stagles (116 words)

	BLOG@STEFANGEENS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1907, the Norwegian linguist Carl Marstrander visited Great Blasket and soon had the islanders convinced they were a living treasure of language and folklore.
		He proved to be the proverbial grain of sand in the oyster; the villagers began to write, and the result was a splendid and prolific literary harvest.
		Great Blasket Island is on the verge of being discovered by mainstream tourism.
	www.stefangeens.com /000247.html (1562 words)

	Open House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gearoid O’Cathain was the last baby born on the Blasket Island in 1947.
		The Great Blasket Island was a busy place in the 1920s with the coming and going of scholars, writers and learners of Irish.
		Fifty years after it was abandoned, a weekend of talks and celebrations got under way at the Blasket Centre in Dunquin, Co Kerry to mark the island's extraordinary contribution to Irish literary history and the Irish language, as well as its future prospects as a world heritage site.
	www.rte.ie /tv/openhouse/2003/1020/BlasIsl.html (459 words)

	Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name “Blasket” is a mystery and nobody knows how or why the group of Islands came to be known as “The Blaskets”.
		The population of the island varied over the hundreds of years but in 1840 the population was thought to be approximately 150 people.
		Like most villages in Ireland after the famine, the population began to grow and by 1916 the population in the Great Blasket Island had reached its peak of 176 men, women, and children.
	www.blasketisland.com /history.htm (217 words)

	Blasket Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Islands of Ireland, B.T Batsford, London, (1936), 98-115.
		The Blasket That Was: The Story of a Deserted Village, An Sagart, Maigh Nuad, (1982).
		Na Blascaodaí / The Blaskets, Oifig an tSoláthair / Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí 1996.
	www.library.ucg.ie /bibltran/authors/BLASKET_LITERATURE.htm (575 words)

	Great Blasket Island, Off The Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
		Over 1,100 acres of unspoilt largely mountainous terrain, the Great Blasket Island is approximately 4 miles long by 1/2 a mile wide.
		Occupied from pre-history, the island overlooks the location where a number of the Spanish Armada ships were wrecked.
		The island has considerable literary acclaim because of the unique writings by a number of islanders.
	www.greatblasketisland.com (205 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blasket heritage enriched again Drawn from a handwritten manuscript in Irish, a new book about daily life on the great Blasket Island will be launched in UCC shortly.
		Cin Lae Eibhlin is based on the diaries of Blasket islander Eibhlin Ni Shuilleabhain.
		The accounts of island life were very immediate, not retrospective like much of the other literature.
	www.ucc.ie /opa/research/research4.html (182 words)

	October 28, 2001
		The island was created millions of years ago without any help from us and will hopefully continue to exist in spite of us.
		The Great Blasket Mor can best be described as one of the finest Irish environmental and cultural relics.
		The entities sole purpose is to preserve the Blasket Island relic for as long as Ireland survives.
	www.kerrycoco.ie /blasket/sub61.htm (602 words)

	Dingle - Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the summer, boatloads of sightseers cross these waters regularly to visit the now sparsely populated Great Blasket Island, one of the four islands that for centuries was home to a unique people.
		On the islands, women banded together and pelted rocks at the rent collectors, while in the harbor towns residents boycotted the English sale of goods confiscated in lieu of tent.
		Although the islands have been vacant since 1953, the spirits of its inhabitants can be seen in the eyes of old men and women who linger on the rocks on a fine day.
	www.hannahhayes.com /dingle.htm (434 words)

	Blasket Island Landmarks - World Cultures European
		She's from the Blasket Island Centre and is asking people to take part in a survey about what, if anything, should be done to "improve the island." We take the questionnaires with us and tell her we'll drop them back off before we go.
		She's the lone inhabitant of the island and known as the "Blasket Weaver." Originally from Wales, she now enjoys her time alone on the Blasket.
		It occurs to me that although she is isolated on this island way out in the western most part of Europe, Sue Redican doesn't seem to be at a loss for knowing what's going on in the world.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ALandmks/BlasketIsland.html (3072 words)

	Blasket Island Ferries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Blasket Island Ferries) operate two 40 passenger boats from Dunquin Harbour to the Great Blasket Island.
		The crew of each vessel have experience over many years and hold all the relevant skippers and offshore safety certificates and in many cases hold certificates that far exceed the Department of Marine requirements.
		(Blasket Island Ferries) are inspected annually by marine surveyors of the Irish Department of Marine.
	www.blasketisland.com /main.htm (103 words)

	Ireland's Dingle Peninsula -- History of the Peninsula
		By the age of 14, nine of her brothers and sisters had died, which gives an indication of the poor conditions that people put up with in the latter stages of the 1800s.
		Most of the younger community had either emigrated or relocated to the mainland, and Peig was left to live with her blind brother-in-law.
		These include examples of rock art, a wedge-tomb, standing stones and a fortified island, the latter is of uncertain date and gives the valley its name Loch an Dun (the Lake of the Fort).
	www.dingle-region.com /history.htm (1997 words)

	Dingle Ocean View House - Luxury vacation house rental in County Kerry, Ireland
		Large 5 bedroom house rental with views of the Atlantic Ocean and Great Blasket Island near Dingle Town in County Kerry, Ireland.
		This brand new stone house is on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Great Blasket Island and Dead Man Island.
		Be sure to visit Dingle’s Great Blasket Island Center, a beautiful building that has a permanent exhibit honoring the residents of Blasket Island plus traveling art exhibits, most recently by some of the many gifted artists who live in the area.
	www.gtunlimited.com /irelandoceanviewhouserental.html (694 words)

	Ireland Revisited, Part 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Northern Ireland is a part of Great Britain and a small majority of its residents are passionately English in culture and political outlook.
		But at least this time, things went reasonably well at the Dublin Airport, which goes to great lengths to be sure that its visitors are aware of the fame of Ireland's four Nobel Laureates for Literature.
		Their stature is celebrated and excerpts from their work trumpeted in a series of large posters that hang from the ceilings in the boarding area.
	home.att.net /~nolantravels/97ir13.html (1097 words)

	Cycling Ireland - County Kerry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We were not prepared for the rugged solitude and beauty of this Island.
		Uninhabited since 1953, the Islands were once a vital community and the source of a great body of Gaelic literature.
		Ruins of stone houses are clustered near the ferry landing, but the rest of the island is unspoiled beaches and beautiful rolling green hillsides.
	www.charm.net /~jdholmes/ireland/kerry.html (1554 words)

	Great Blasket Island
		Blasket Island was once inhabited by the Irish, but in 1953, was evacuated due to dwindling population.
		The ferry does not travel to the island unless the weather is good.
		Later on we met a woman who does tours for Rick Steves, and she had tried five times to get to Blasket Island, but could not due to weather, so we felt very fortunate.
	homepage.mac.com /skatsaounis/iblog/B1900605436/C1062718488/E1452272745 (362 words)

	Books from Royal Claddagh by Robin Flower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dr Flower spent a considerable amount of time between 1910 and 1930 living amongst the 150 inhabitants of the Great Blasket island.
		Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1856 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish.
		This book is intended for readers of country classics; those interested in Irish culture, literature; readers of other Blasket Island titles.
	www.claddagh.com /books/authors.asp?Name=Robin+Flower (192 words)

	Ireland's Blasket Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the moment the young English scholar George Thomson set foot on the Great Blasket in 1923 he and Muiris became close friends.
		Muiris Ó Súilleabháin is widely recognised, along with Tomás Ó Criomhthain and Peig Sayers, as one of the three great writers of the Great Blasket Island.
		Muiris was born on the Island in February 1904.
	www.dingle-peninsula.ie /blasketnews.html (592 words)

	Dingle Peninsula : Active Pursuits : Bird Watching \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Great Blasket Island is of some interest for the fall passerine migration.
		In summer the small, uninhabited islands surrounding Great Blasket attract an abundance of nesting seabirds, including more than 20,000 pairs of storm petrels.
		Inch Peninsula, extending into Castlemaine Harbour south of Inch town, is a wintering ground for brent geese, which arrive in late August and move on in April; there is also a large wigeon population during the fall.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/dinglepeninsula/1314020109.html (192 words)

	The Kingdom - 2003/07/03: Plan warns against new dwellings on Blaskets
		On the question of former residents who may wish to return to live on the island, there is provision for a number of existing buildings to be renovated for this purpose.
		It states that the Irish language should play an essential part in all aspects of conservation of the island and that conservation work on the island’s buildings and other structures is urgently required.
		The Blasket Forum, which consists of representatives of all stockholders and Blasket interest groups, have worked in close partnership with the county council in the preparation of the plan.
	archives.tcm.ie /thekingdom/2003/07/03/story9772.asp (368 words)

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