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Dunquin Harbour - Kerry - Ireland

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#OTD in 1873 – Birth of Blasket Island storyteller, Peig Sayers, in Dunquin, Co Kerry.

Born Máiréad Sayers in the townland of Vicarstown, Dunquinn, Co Kerry, the youngest child of the family. She was called Peig after her mother, Margaret “Peig” Brosnan, from Castleisland. Her father Tomás Sayers was a renowned storyteller who passed on many of his tales to Peig. At age 12, she was taken out of school and went to work as a servant for the Curran family in the nearby town of Dingle,…

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An evening above Dunquin Pier

An evening above Dunquin Pier

Dunquin Pier at the end of the Dingle Peninsula sits below a steep grassy cliff. Last year I saw three teenage girls sitting on the edge of the cliff you can see in this photo. I got dizzy just looking at them but they weren’t in (much) danger. There’s a step below where many feet have worn away the grass.

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By Pascal Bullan

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Cé Dhún Chaoin aka Dunquin Pier, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.

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Cottage, near Dunquin, Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry, Ireland

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Cottage, near Dunquin, Dingle peninsula, Co Kerry, Ireland

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Pentti Sammallahti.  Dunquin, Co. Kerry, 1979. 

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back at it again at dunquin looking out at the blasket islands :) amazing day to be there and then get a boozy hot chocolate at the most westerly pub in europe!

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As we journey onwards in life, more and more spaces within us fill with absence. We begin to have more and more friends among the dead. Every person suffers the absence of their past. It is utterly astonishing how the force and fiber of each day unravel into the vacant air of yesterday. You look behind you and you see nothing of your days here. Our vanished days increase our experience of absence. Yet our past does not deconstruct as if it never was. Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. Memory rescues experience from total disappearance. The kingdom of memory is full of the ruins of presence. It is astonishing how faithful experience actually is; how it never vanishes completely. Experience leaves deep traces in us. It is surprising that years after something has happened to you the needle of thought can hit some groove in the mind and the music of a long vanished event can rise in your soul as fresh and vital as the evening it happened.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes

Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Dunquin, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Photo: © Ann Cahill

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#OTD in Irish History | 19 April:

1366 – The parliament, alarmed at the apparent undermining by native influences of the settler population’s Englishness, passed the ‘Statutes of Kilkenny’. 1608 – O’Doherty’s Rebellion was launched by the Burning of Derry. 1780 – Henry Grattan moves resolutions in favour of legislative independence in the Irish House of Commons. 1798 – The Earl of Clare began a 3-day visit to Trinity College,…

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Dunquin pier in Kerry hope to be back their soon

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Best Places for 2 Weeks in Ireland

What are the best places to see in Ireland if you only have two weeks of vacation or less? #Ireland #travel #photography #wanderlust #travelblogger #traveltuesday #travelgram

Author & Photographer: George Mitchell George’s Bio Our recommendations are not influenced by affiliate links – we have none. Our content and advice is derived from our personal experience, and knowledge based on living in Europe for seven years. What can you see in 2 Weeks in Ireland? Dunquin View, Slea Head Drive, Dingle Peninsula We lived in Europe for 7 years and usually had 5 week…

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"Famine roads along the hills above Dunquin, on the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, viewed from the Blasket Sound."

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Day 4 of the Dingle Way, Dingle to Dunquin. The bus service here is quite sparse so we took a cab for the first 7km, just to give ourselves a head start. Thank god we did, because today we accidentally missed a trail marker and climbed halfway up a mountain on a utility track and then had to come back down. So good thing we had enough energy! We got to see the beehive huts that inspired set designs for some recent Star Wars movies, and made it to the dubiously claimed "most westerly pub in Europe" for some pizza and a really good sticky toffee pudding. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjulxkuMqdn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Pentti Sammallahti.  John Kearney, Dunquin, Co. Kerry, 1979.