Memoir of Blasket romance

MIKE CARNEY describes his birthplace as the ‘’most beautiful place on earth’’.

Many would agree. Islands have a mystique and sense of romance about them — none more than the Great Blasket, lying serenely in the Atlantic three miles off the Dingle Peninsula.

It was there Mike came into the world in 1920. Resident in the US since 1948, he is now the oldest living islander and confesses to still dreaming about the place almost every night.