The story of the early Christian monks who built a monastery on Skellig Michael, a rocky crag jutting out of the Atlantic some 12km off the coast of Co Kerry, is brought to life vividly by three caretaker-guides.
The fact that they all happen to be women, working in a place once solely inhabited by men, is a source of joy to this column, although the singularity of this edge-of-the-world wonder goes far beyond such surface observations.
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