A sound sculpture staged at Dublin’s GPO Witness History Visitor Centre is entitled ‘Women of 1916 — Stormy Petrel/Guardeall’, writes Richard Collins

In 1948, newspapers dubbed Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin the ‘loneliest boy in the world’: he was the sole child on the Blaskets, and now is the only surviving evacuee of 1953-54, says Áilín Quinlan.

AT this time of year, the vast white beaches along the Atlantic coast of southern Spain, the Costa de la Luz, are deserted, and the holiday apartments that front them, empty.

ISLAND literature has a proud history in Ireland, and these three books are a fine contribution to the canon.

A RARE picture of Eamon de Valera in unfamiliar garb while visiting the Great Blasket in 1947 is one of the fascinating photographs in a new book that gives insights into life in other days in the Dingle Peninsula.