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The Great Blasket

Blasket Islands, County Kerry

An Irish-speaking island whose people wrote some of Ireland's best-loved books.

Off the tip of the Dingle Peninsula, the Great Blasket was home to a remote Irish-speaking community. Several islanders, including Tomás Ó Criomhthain and Peig Sayers, wrote books about their lives that became classics.

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When
Evacuated 1953
Where
52.1000, -10.5300
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Ferries run from Dunquin in summer. The Blasket Centre on the mainland tells their story.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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