Blasket Islands
There is a sense of melancholy about the Blasket islands that is both tragic and beautiful; the derelict cottages are a reminder of the hardship endured by the island’s residents and their eventual evacuation in the 1950s. Standing with ghosts in the ruins of a cottage, I felt privileged to be photographing the stone remains of these incredible people. Survivalists before the word was popularized, they not only lived, survived and thrived on the side of a small island but they managed to write the most incredible memoirs, everlasting literature of a unique people whose extraordinary lives were given to us by extraordinary writers and the dim light of a cottage lamp.
