Great Blasket
Great Blasket see Blasket Islands , Ireland.
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Solicitor defeated State in Blasket Island battle
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 8/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...two others challenged the 1989 Blasket Island Act, which would have forced...by the State of land on the Blasket islands. This was after he had acknowledged...Meanwhile concerns about the Great Blasket Island grew. There were worries about...
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Ireland: Memories are made of this A journey to the Dingle Peninsula and the isolated Great Blasket island is a haunting reminder of the past.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/26/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...kicking foam up into the Blasket Sound. This treacherous...out to sea, the Great Blasket, first and largest of a group of six islands. "Seen from above...in his book The Western Island. The Great Blasket was once home to 170 people...
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Arts: Absence makes the song sound sweeter The Blasket Islands may be deserted, says Claudia Pritchard, but their music lives on
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...folk songs of now-deserted islands are to take on new life as...last few inhabitants of the Blasket Islands off the coast of Trelee...likens his new composition, The Blasket Dances, to Mussorgsky's...the islanders. "With The Blasket Dances I did something that...
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Blasket Island looks just grand.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 7/29/1998; ; 380 words
; BLASKET ISLAND, the mount of Olivier Peslier, looks the best value in tonight's Grand Prix de Vichy, a race sadly devoid of runners from...
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Feathers fly at Great Blasket Island inquiry.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/7/2008; 527 words
; ...owners of Co. Kerrys Great Blasket Island at a planning inquiry...which owns the island, accused island weaver Sue Redican of telling...conservation and future of the island. The company plans to sell its land on the islands to the State in return for...further development on the ...
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OPW sign purchase contracts with owners of land on Great Blasket Island
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 8/11/2007; 230 words
; ...running purchase negotiations between the state and the Great Blasket Island landowners. Many of the owners have signed purchase contracts...Public Works paving the way for the government to develop the island into a National Park.
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BUY AN ISLAND.. FOR THE PRICE OF A 3-BEDROOM HOUSE IN SOUTH DUBLIN; State buys Great Blasket for EUR2m.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 2/14/2009; 507 words
; ...the Environment has bought the Great Blasket Island, Co Kerry, for just EUR2million. And...the majority landholding on the Great Blasket Island ending years of negotiations...region. CAPTION(S): DES RES Great Blasket Island
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Peigs island home to be bought for the nation in E2m deal; (1)Must-read:Peig Sayers book was a standard irish exam test (2) Romantic vista:An artist's view of Great Blasket Island.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/13/2007; 609 words
; ...at a cost of E2million. The island was the home of Peig Sayers...An artists view of Great Blasket Islandtrespassing on private...centre of the old villageon the island. Sources in Dingle have confirmed that all but one of the islands six otherlandowners will follow...a standard Irish exam text ...
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State buys Great Blasket, home of Peig Sayers.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 2/14/2009; 624 words
; ...majority shareholding on the Great Blasket Island. The historic site, which is...Seventies, tried to purchase the Great Blasket for the State in the late Eighties...battle. CAPTION(S): Great Blasket: Haughey failed to buy it in 1999
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Oldest native Blasket Islander conferred by NUI Maynooth
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 9/22/2009; ; 472 words
; ...Maynooth on the oldest native Blasket Islander for his services to...decades to preserve the Great Blasket. Micheal O Cearna, (Mike...Literature, D.Litt., at the Blasket Interpretive Centre in Dun...looks onto the now abandoned island off the coast of Kerry. Mr...
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Blasket Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Blasket Islands group of rock islets, Co. Kerry, SW Republic of Ireland...on one of the islets. Most of the inhabitants of the islands were moved to the mainland in 1953. Great Blasket, largest of the islands, was the stronghold of Piaras...
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Great Blasket
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Great Blasket see Blasket Islands , Ireland.
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Ireland
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Ireland lies west of the island of Great Britain, from...size of Britain, the island averages 140 mi (225...coast are numerous small islands, including the Aran Islands , the Blasket Islands , Achill , and Clare Island . The interior is dotted...
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children
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...though not all) Irish children, urban and rural, middle class and working class, in places as far apart as the Blasket Islands and Dublin city, as early as the 1920s. His appearance, spontaneously adopted by parents themselves, was in sharp...
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Kerry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...commercially. Footwear is made in Tralee and Killarney. Many well-preserved dolmens, stone forts, round towers, castles, and abbeys still stand. Irish Gaelic is spoken by inhabitants of the Dingle peninsula and the Blasket Islands.
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