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Blaskets

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Blaskets, The. A cluster of rocky islets off Dunmore Head at the tip of the Dingle peninsula, 12 miles W of Dingle. Before the recent depopulation, the Irish-speaking islanders were much studied by folklorists.

Bibliography

See Robin Flower , Western Island (1944). Three highly regarded Irish-language memoirs were written by islanders:
Tomás O'Crohan , The Islandman (1929);
Maurice O'sullivan , Twenty Years A-Growing (1933);

and

Bibliography

Peig Sayers , Peig (1936, 1973).

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Blasket Islands

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Blasket Islands group of rock islets, Co. Kerry, SW Republic of Ireland; a lighthouse is 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 Ferriter, the last Irish chieftain to surrender to Oliver Cromwell .

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