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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.

EFFORTS to convert the Irish-speaking residents of the Great Blasket Island to Protestantism will be among the subjects to be discussed at the annual Blasket Commemoration, in Dunquin, Co Kerry, this weekend.