Visiting the Blasket Centre

 After our night on the Great Blasket Island, we returned to the Kerry mainland:

And paid a quick visit to the Blasket Centre Museum in the Irish-speaking village of Dunquin, which had really interesting pictures showing what village life had been like on the Great Blasket Island:

The Blasket Centre also contained some interesting artifacts from village life on the Great Blasket Island:

 The Catholic religious items below caught my eye:

Have read that a Catholic priest only got to visit the Great Blasket Island once a year, although the Great Blasket men would often row over to Dunquin for Mass on Sunday and holy days of obligation.

The picture below shows how a decline in the Great Blasket population paved the way to the mid-1950s evacuation of the island:

While the next picture shows one of the Great Blasket's great (Irish language) writers, Peig Sayers:

And finally, the picture below focuses on the Great Blasket Island's rich musical tradition:

Have read that the Great Blasket men had a unique way of playing the fiddle.

Overall, the Blasket Centre was well worth a visit and the small entrance fee.