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I’ve only ever been out to the Aran Islands, so perhaps I should add the Blaskets or some of the other uninhabited islands to my bucket list. Link: Blasket Islands History and Heritage… There’s plenty of info on the Blaskets and island life from the mid-19th century on, thanks to several memoirs written in the early days of the Irish state by several islanders. Kerry are the ones I’m most familiar with, mainly due to the compulsory reading of Peig Sayers’ Irish-language memoir in school. The tale of Inis Airc is similar to the abandonment of many other Irish islands over the course of the twentieth century. TG4 made a documentary about the abandonment of the Irish in 2007, and it can be found, in several parts, on YouTube. Other islands remained inhabited once newer piers and berthing facilities were put in place, but the cost of such for all the Irish islands inhabited at the turn of the century would have been enormous. The inhabitants could be cut off for weeks during winter, with no way to get help to the sick, or bring in food or supplies. Inis Airc lacked a pier or jetty, so tiny currachs were the only way on or off. The key reasons the population left seem to have been the incredible hardship of island life, coupled with the difficulty of getting to or from the island. By 1960, the inhabitants numbered just 24. Right next to the much-larger Inis Bofin, Inis Airc would have have supported about 300 people at the start of the famine (the famine being the high-water mark for the Irish population as a whole).

I came across an interesting documentary about the abandonment of Inis Airc, a tiny island off the Galway coast. (Photo credit: Aoife Ni Mhathuna/aoifep via Flickr/Creative Comons) Nello spettacolo televisivo Paddy Wackery, trasmesso dal canale di lingua irlandese TG4. There was a great response from Margaret Kent, who identified the boy on second-right as her uncle, and then Pádraig Cronin, who chipped in about his father recalling the old Beamish & Crawford lorries.Many islands off the coast of Ireland have been abandoned, left to the seals and the birds. Peig Sayers (Dún Chaoin, 29 marzo 1873 Dingle, 8 dicembre 1958) è stata una scrittrice e seanachaí irlandese di lingua irlandese Biografia. I wasn't expecting any of it, just sharing the picture after the Peig documentary. 'It took all of eight minutes for the first response to come in. All of these contributions have helped fill in the picture in small ways, but there's still much to be learned. Soon after sharing it on Twitter, a small but significant response emerged, with users identifying family members of their own, and speaking about possible trips to the island on behalf of Beamish & Crawford employees. Peig Sayers: there was more to the master storyteller than your Leaving Cert had you believe, as we saw in last week's TG4 doc Peig Sayers autobiography was part of the compulsory Leaving Certificate Irish syllabus until 1995, and has cast a long shadow on the Irish language. This was also when Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, also known as the Irish Pimpernel, the Irish Schindler, is supposed to have saved over 6000 Allied soldiers and civilian Jews from the Nazis.' He studied for the priesthood, and was ordained there in the 1940s. 'That photo fell out of an album of wartime photos from Rome. MacCarthy happened across the picture, dating roughly to the 1930s, while researching the man he was to become.

OJtfZCYCaN- Flor MacCarthy🇺🇦 March 10, 2021Ĭarthach, the tall fellow third from the left in the picture, was there with 'friends and boys from Farranferris', according to the bit of info on the photo's reverse, but as is often the way with these finds, the information is lost to time. The tall ‘boy’, 3rd from the left, was my uncle. Presenter Sinad N Uallachin is taking on the ultimate challenge, redefining Peig Sayers in the national narrative in a new show on the 10th of March on TG4. The inscription on the back reads: “Peig Sayers (with priests & boys from Farranferris)”. They're nudging each other and giggling in the presence of the great Peig.įound this photo of #Peig in an old family album recently.

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Lost to play the ghost of Peig Sayers in the bilingual series Paddywhackery.

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'When you look at the photo, it looks like she's surrounded by starstruck lads, and a really dignified pose in the middle of it, that gives away that she was a big deal at the time. Free Online Library: I CHOOSE TG4 INSTEAD OF LOST Fionnuala happy to ditch.