blasketislands

I actually just finished reading his book, as Bearla, 3 nights ago. A most enjoyable read and a fascinating insight into what was a most different way of life to that of the mainland at the time, and so much more to how we live today.

I have recently read " the islandman"

and live was certainly tough

Foxglove I read it in the 1980s while on a cycling tour round Kerry (and most of the west of Ireland). Also Maurice O'Sullivan's Twenty Years a-Growing

Tomás Ó Criomhthain (anglicised as Tomas O'Crohan or Thomas O'Crohan; 21. December 1856–1937) From his wiki article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_O%27Crohan - there is a face-on view wearing the same clothes - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Criomhthain.png . Dated as "before 1929", when the front view was published in this online book - archive.org/details/toileachsclbheat00crio

Seated on the right, Sir David Harrel (1841–1939), Chief Commissioner Dublin Metropolitam Police - www.dib.ie/biography/harrel-sir-david-alfred-a3814

Standing left arms folded, Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (4 November 1870 – 3 July 1917), known as Lord Basil Temple Blackwood, was a British lawyer, civil servant and book illustrator.
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Temple_Blackwood


Illustration by Basil Temple Blackwood for 'Cautionary Tales for Children' (1907) by Hillare Belloc. This is "Jim, who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion".

Better photo of him at 'Image 6'.

Standing right, Vaughan Robinson Nash CB CVO (1861 – 16 December 1932) was a British journalist, economist and the husband of Rosalind Nash.
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Nash

Better photo 'Image 7'.

Skellig Michael, oratory and the bee-hive huts

YIKES! There's a googleball - maps.app.goo.gl/bTwu7ErGHbdtnZjm6

Ed. - Or two! - maps.app.goo.gl/RzAYCA9MrCkfcHvF7