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Sat 08 Aug 2009Peig's island of sorrows
Great Blasket’s delights are simple, such as walking and swimming, but you can’t escape memories of a vanished people, writes LORRAINE COURTNEY
AN ANCIENT people living at the end of the earth. Beyond you drop off the edge of the world. The double hump of An Blascaod Mór, the Great Blasket, is the biggest island in the fragmented archipelago off the desolate grandeur of Slea Head, in Co Kerry. “Seen from above you would think them sea-monsters of an antique world languidly lifting time-worn backs above the restless and transitory waves,” wrote the scholar Robin Flower in The Western Island.
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