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Visiting Ireland’s Abandoned Blasket Islands

Visiting Ireland’s Abandoned Blasket Islands

Off the southwest coast of Ireland, lie a set of islands known as the Blasket Islands. Today, these islands are abandoned, but for centuries a community of hard working people lived here, eking out a living in this isolated environment. Visiting the islands today gives an evocative sense of what life here was like – […]

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