Spinning and weaving through life on the Blasket Islands

Island life is not for everyone but Sue Redican revels in her life on the Great Blasket, no matter the weather

Sue Redican fell in love with Kerry while on holiday in 1981. 

One day Sue Redican thought to herself that the Great Blasket Island would be a nice place to live. Hasn’t that thought crossed all our minds from time to time?

The Welsh native moved to Dun Chuin, Co Kerry, in 1981, a time when emigration out of there was rife. Many from west Kerry were swapping their idyllic backdrop along the Dingle peninsula for that of some major city in her own motherland of the UK.