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Blasket Islands

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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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.

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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);

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Peig Sayers , Peig (1936, 1973).

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	The last of his tribe: Maurice O'Sullivan and the Blasket Islanders.(Literature)(Critical Essay) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/2005
	"Some kind of gibberish": Irish-speaking children in the National Schools, 1850-1922. Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1998
	What is to be done? "I do not know," says the great bell of bow.(A Loose Canon: Essays on History, Modernity and Tradition)(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/2007

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	The last of his tribe: Maurice O'Sullivan and the Blasket Islanders.(Literature)(Critical Essay) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...one Maurice O'Sullivan, a native of the Blasket Islands off the Irish coast and near the Dingle...enterprise. IN THE FIRST PLACE, Great Blasket Island (the only island in the group...the literary achievement of the native Blasket Islanders themselves is possibly without... Read more
	"Some kind of gibberish": Irish-speaking children in the National Schools, 1850-1922. Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...cast my eyes all round the house , wrote Tomas O'Crohan (1951: 15, 47) of his first day at National School on the Blasket Islands off southwestern Ireland around 1866. He noticed books and heaps of papers and a blackboard covered with strange... Read more
	What is to be done? "I do not know," says the great bell of bow.(A Loose Canon: Essays on History, Modernity and Tradition)(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...rabbits) to deserted islands (especially the Blaskets). We will never, he...the Gaelic-speaking Blasket Islands, before everyone abandoned...wind-lashed western islands of Scotland and Ireland...and fall of Great Blasket brings tears to Coman... Read more
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