Great Blasket vulnerable to invasion

Donal Hickey on protecting wildlife on the Blaskets.

WHEN people talk about the Great Blasket Island, it is usually about its literary history, that such a small outpost, three miles out in the Atlantic, could produce so many writers and storytellers.

Today, 55 years after its last human inhabitants abandoned the Great Blasket, there remains little tangible evidence of its literary tradition, apart from the diminishing ruins of some of the writers’ houses.