The Aran Islands (Irish: Oileáin Árann, Aran Islands Dialect: [ˈɪlɑːn ˈɑːrənʲ], [nə ˈhɑːrənʲəxə]) are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. The Isle of Arran (Scots Gaelic: Eilean Arainn) is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde with an area of 430 km² (167 square miles). ... Galway Bay (Irish: Loch Lurgain or Cuan na Gaillimhe) is a large bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the district of Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. ...

The Aran Islands, on the west coast of Ireland

Aran Islands

The largest island is Inishmore (Irish: Árainn (Mhór) or Inis Mór,^[1]; Aran Islands Dialect: [ˈɑːrənʲ woːr], [ˈɪnɪɕ woːr ˈɑːrənʲ]) the middle and second-largest is Inishmaan (Inis Meáin / Inis Meadhóin; Aran Islands Dialect: [ˈɪnɪɕ mʲɑːn]), and the smallest and most eastern is Inisheer (Inis Thiar or Inis Oírr / Inis Oirthir; Aran Islands Dialect: [ˈɪnɪɕ iːr], [ˈɪnɪɕ siːr]). Irish is a spoken language on all three islands, and is the language used for the names of the islands and many of the island's villages and place names. File links The following pages link to this file: Aran Islands ... File links The following pages link to this file: Aran Islands ... File links The following pages link to this file: Aran Islands Inishmaan Inisheer ... File links The following pages link to this file: Aran Islands Inishmaan Inisheer ... , The Aran Islands East Beach, Inishmore Inis Mór / Árainn Mhór (English: ) is the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in the Republic of Ireland, and has an area of twelve square miles. ... Inishmaan (Irish: Inis Meadhóin / Inis Meáin), population 200, is the middle of the three main Aran Islands in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland. ... Inisheer (Irish: Inis Thiar or Inis Oirthir / Inis Oírr) is the smallest and most eastern of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland. ...

The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows; the North Sound / An Súnda ó Thuaidh lies between Aranmore and Leitir Mealláin, County Galway it was formerly known as Bealach Locha Lurgan in Irish. Gregory's Sound / Súnda Ghríoghóra lies between Aranmore and Inishmaan it was formerly known as Bealach na h-Áite. Foul Sound / An Súnda Salach lies between Inishmaan and Inisheer it was formerly known as Bealach na Fearbhaighe. South Sound / An Súnda ó Theas formerly known as Bealach na Finnise lies between Inisheer and County Clare.

They are administratively part of County Galway.

Geology

A view over the karst landscape on Inishmore, from Dún Aengus, an ancient stone fort

The islands' geology is mainly karst limestone and is thus more closely related to The Burren in Co. Clare (to the south) than to the granites of Connemara to the north. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Karst topography occurs when a landscape is marked by underground drainage patterns. ... Karst topography occurs when a landscape is marked by underground drainage patterns. ... Categories: Ireland-place stubs | Geography of Ireland ... Connemara (Irish Conamara), which derives from Conmhaicne Mara (meaning: descendants of Con Mhac, of the sea), is a district in the west of Ireland (County Galway). ...

Huge boulders up to 25 m above the sea at parts of the west facing cliffs have been shown [1] not to be glacial erratics as originally believed, but rather as an extreme form of storm beach, cast there by giant waves that occur on average once per century. A Glacial erratic is a piece of rock carried by glacial ice some distance from the rock outcrop from which it came. ... Chesil Beach from the Isle of Portland. ...

Traditional life

Inishmore

Since the islands were first populated in larger numbers, probably at the time of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the mid 17th. century, when the Catholic population of Ireland had the choice of going "to hell or to Connacht", many fled to the numerous islands off the west coast of Ireland. There they adapted themselves to the raw climatic conditions, developing a survival system of total self-sufficiency. Their methods included mixing layers of sand and seaweed on top of rocks to create fertile soil, a technique used to grow potatoes and other vegetables. (Borgese, Elisabeth Mann. Seafarm: the story of aquaculture. New York: Harry N. Adams, Inc., p. 105.) The same seaweed method also provided grazing grass within stone-wall enclosures grass for cattle and sheep, which in turn provided wool and yarn to make handwoven trousers, skirts and jackets, handknitted sweaters, shawls, caps, and hide shoes. The islanders also constructed unique boats for fishing, building their thatched cottages from the materials available or trading with the mainland. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 198 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture of Inishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland, august 2006 Photo des champs dInishmore dans les iles aran en Irlande, aout 2006 ] File links... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 198 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture of Inishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland, august 2006 Photo des champs dInishmore dans les iles aran en Irlande, aout 2006 ] File links... Combatants English Royalists and Irish Catholic Confederate troops English Parliamentarian New Model Army troops and allied Protestants in Ireland Commanders James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (1649 - Dec. ... Statistics Area: 17,713. ... A jumper from Marks & Spencer A sweater (also called sweatshirt, pullover, jumper, and jersey) is a relatively heavy garment intended to cover the torso and arms of the human body (though, in some cases, sweaters are made for dogs and occasionally other animals) and typically to be worn over a... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

It is only very recently that the islands have had reliable electricity and communications. Many blame the decline of Irish speaking among young members of the islands community on English-language television, available twenty-four hours a day since the 1980s; furthermore, many younger islanders leave for the mainland when they come of age. Irish is spoken less by the younger generation, although a casual visit to the island will reveal people of all ages conversing fluently in the language.

Most jobs on the island are in fishing or in the tourist industry. Islanders differ in their attitude towards visitors; generally speaking, however, islanders are friendly but also sometimes desirous of preserving their own cultural traditions and therefore occasionally distant. Such a visitor-visited dynamic arises in many situations elsewhere in the world where a small, closed culture becomes an object of fascination for a much larger group.

Pub life can be raucous, and islanders sometimes gather in the evenings to share music. It is worth remembering also that the islands are very small, and that island residents are all known to each other. This can intensify the feeling for some visitors of a sense of intrusion.

Tourism

There are several Iron Age forts on Inishmore, including Dún Aengus (Dún Aonghasa, Aran Islands Dialect: dūn aŋgəs) and the Black Fort (Dún Dúchathair). Visitors come in large numbers, particularly in the summer time. Oileáin Árann Díreach arrange tours of the Aran Islands together with accommodation, flights or ferries to all three Aran Islands. Two companies operate a ferry service from Rossaveal in County Galway - Aran Direct and Island Ferries. An air service (Aer Arann) is available from Inverin, both of which have connecting buses from Galway city. There is also a ferry service from Doolin, in County Clare (near the Cliffs of Moher) to Inisheer. There is currently no direct ferry service from Galway city.
Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... A view over the karst landscape on Inishmore, from Dún Aengus, an ancient stone fort Dún Aengus (Irish: Dún Aonghasa) is the most famous of several prehistoric forts on the Aran Isles, of Co. ... Rossaveal (Ros an Mhil in Irish) is a fishing village in Connemara, Ireland, and the main ferryport for the Aran Islands in Galway Bay. ... Statistics Province: Connacht County Town: Galway Code: G (GY proposed) Area: 6,148 km² Population (2006) 231,035 (including Galway City); 159,052 (without Galway City) Website: www. ... Aer Arann is a regional airline based in Dublin, Ireland. ... Inveran or Inverin (Indreabhán in Irish) is a Irish-speaking village in Connemara between Spiddal and Costelloe in County Galway, Ireland. ... Doolin Harbour in the evening, with the Cliffs of Moher and Hags Head in the far distance The Fisher Street area of Doolin Doolin (Irish: Dúlainn) is a coastal town in County Clare, Ireland, on the Atlantic coast. ... County Clare (Contae an Chláir in Irish) is in the Irish province of Munster. ... Looking north towards OBriens Tower The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair, Cliffs of the ruin) are located in the parish of Liscannor at the south-western edge of The Burren area near Doolin, which is located in County Clare, Republic of Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference M300256 Statistics Province: Connacht County: Dáil Éireann: Galway West European Parliament: North-West Dialling Code: 091 Postal District(s): G Area: 50. ...

The Aran Islands as seen from the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, looking out to Galway Bay.

Inisheer looking to Inishmaan

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Literature & arts

Local artists

One of the major figures of the Irish Renaissance, Liam O'Flaherty, was born in Gort na gCapall, Inishmore, on August 28, 1896. Máirtín Ó Díreáin, one of the most eminent poets in the Irish language, was also from Inishmore. Irish writing of 8th century For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... , The Aran Islands East Beach, Inishmore Inis Mór / Árainn Mhór (English: ) is the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in the Republic of Ireland, and has an area of twelve square miles. ... is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910-1988) born in Sruthán on Inishmore in the Aran Islands was an Irish language poet. ... This article is about the modern Goidelic language. ... , The Aran Islands East Beach, Inishmore Inis Mór / Árainn Mhór (English: ) is the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in the Republic of Ireland, and has an area of twelve square miles. ...

Visiting artists

A wild coast on Inishmore

The islands have had an influence on world literature and arts disproportionate to their size. The unusual cultural and physical history of the islands has made them the object of visits by a variety of writers and travellers who recorded their experiences. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixel Image in higher resolution (1100 × 724 pixel, file size: 426 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Aran Islands, Ireland. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 527 pixel Image in higher resolution (1100 × 724 pixel, file size: 426 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Aran Islands, Ireland. ...

Beginning around the late 19th Century, many Irish writers travelled to the Aran Islands; Lady Gregory, for example, came to Aran in the late nineteenth century to learn Irish. At the turn of the century and throughout his life one of Ireland's leading artists, Seán Keating , spent time every year on the islands translating on to canvas all the qualities that make the inhabitants of these Atlantic Islands so unusual and in many respects remarkable. A photograph of Lady Gregory from her 1913 book Our Irish Theatre Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852–22 May 1932), née Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. ... Seán Keating (Born John Keating, Limerick 1889, died Dublin 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the insurrectionary period and of the early industrialization of Ireland. ...

Many wrote down their experiences in a personal vein, alternately casting them as narratives about finding, or failing to find, some essential aspect of Irish culture that had been lost to the more urban regions of Ireland. A second, related kind of visitor were those who attempted to collect and catalog the stories and folklore of the island, treating it as a kind of societal "time capsule" of an earlier stage of Irish culture. Visitors of this kind differed in their desires to integrate with the island culture, and most were content to be considered observers. The culmination of this mode of interacting with the island might well be Robert J. Flaherty's 1934 classic documentary Man of Aran. For other uses, see Time capsule (disambiguation). ... Robert Joseph Flaherty (February 16, 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan, United States - July 23, 1951, Dummerston, Vermont) was a filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film (Nanook of the North) in 1922. ... Man Of Aran is a documentary film on life on the Aran Islands by Robert J. Flaherty (1934). ...

One might consider John Millington Synge's The Aran Islands as a work that straddles these first two modes, it being both a personal account and also an attempt at preserving information about the pre- (or a-) literate Aran culture in literary form. The motivations of these visitors are best exemplified by W. B. Yeats' advice to Synge: "Go to the Aran Islands, and find a life that has never been expressed in literature." Edmund John Millington Synge (IPA: ) (April 16, 1871 – March 24, 1909) was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. ... William Butler Yeats, 1933. ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, up until perhaps the early 1970s, one sees a third kind of visitor to the islands. These visitors came not necessarily because of the uniquely "Irish" nature of the island community, but simply because the accidents of geography and history conspired to produce a society that some found intriguing or even beguiling and that they wished to participate in directly. It should be emphasized that at no time was there a single "Aran" culture: any description must be necessarily incomplete and can be said to apply completely only to parts of the island at certain points in time. However, visitors that came and stayed were mainly attracted to aspects of Aran culture such as:

1. Isolated from mainstream print and electronic media, and thus reliant primarily on local oral tradition for both entertainment and news.
2. Rarely visited or understood by outsiders.
3. Strongly influenced in its traditions and attitudes by the unusually savage weather of Galway Bay.
4. In many parts characterized by subsistence, or near-subsistence, farming and fishing.
5. Adapted to the absence of luxuries that many parts of the Western world had enjoyed for decades and in some cases, centuries.

For these reasons, the Aran Islands were "decoupled" from cultural developments that were at the same time radically changing other parts of Ireland and Western Europe. Though visitors of this third kind understood that the culture they encountered was intimately connected to that of Ireland, they were not particularly inclined to interpret their experience as that of "Irishness." Oral tradition or oral culture is a way of transmitting history, literature or law from one generation to the next in a civilization without a writing system. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Irish Grid Reference M300256 Statistics Province: Connacht County: Dáil Éireann: Galway West European Parliament: North-West Dialling Code: 091 Postal District(s): G Area: 50. ... Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. ...

Instead, they looked directly towards ways in which their time on the islands put them in touch with more general truths about life and human relations, and they often took pains to live "as an islander," eschewing help from friends and family at home. Indeed, because of the difficult conditions they found -- dangerous weather, scarce food -- they sometimes had little time to investigate the culture in the more detached manner of earlier visitors. Their writings are often of a much more personal nature, being concerned with understanding the author's self as much as the culture around him.

This third mode of being in Aran died out in the late 1970s due in part to the increased tourist traffic and in part to technological improvements made to the island, that relegated the above aspects to history. Perhaps the best literary product of this third kind of visitor is An Aran Keening, by Andrew McNeillie, who spent a year on Aran in 1968. Another, Pádraig Ó Síocháin, a Dublin author and lawyer, learning to speak Gaelic to the fluency of an islander became inextricably linked to the Aran handknitters and their Aran Sweaters, extensively promoting their popularity and sale around the world for nearly forty years. P.A. Ó Siocháin in 1985, age 80, modelling one of his Aran cardigans. ... This article is about the modern Goidelic language. ... For the record label, see Knitting Factory. ... The Aran sweater, or Arran sweater, which takes its name from the Aran Islands, was popular in the fishing villages on and islands off the West Coast of Ireland, or from the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland. ...

A fourth kind of visitor to the islands, still prominent today, comes for spiritual reasons often connected to an appreciation for Celtic Christianity or more modern New Age beliefs, the former of which finds sites and landscapes of importance on the islands. Finally, there are many thousands of visitors who come for broadly touristic reasons: to see the ruins, hear Irish spoken (and Irish music played) in the few pubs on the island, and to experience the often awe-inspiring geology of cliffs. Tourists today far outnumber visitors of the four kinds discussed above. Tourists and visitors of the fourth kind, however, are under-represented as creators of literature or art directly connected to the island; there are few ordinary "travelogues" of note, perhaps because of the small size of the islands, and there are no personal accounts written about Aran that are primarily concerned with spirituality. Celtic Christianity, or Insular Christianity (sometimes commonly called the Celtic Church) broadly refers to the Early Medieval Christian practice that developed around the Irish Sea in the fifth and sixth centuries: that is, among Celtic/British peoples such as the Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx (the inhabitants of the British... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Tourist redirects here. ...

Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (1986) and Stones of Aran: Labyrinth (1995), and his accompanying detailed map of the islands, are another resource on the Aran Islands. Robinson's work is an exhaustive, but not exhausting, survey of the Aran geography and its influence on Aran culture from the Iron Age up to recent times. Robinson also has written, and continues to write, about the Connemara region that faces the Aran Islands on the Galway mainland.

Aran Island sweater

Main article: Aran sweater

A rusting shipwreck sits on the shore of Inisheer, one of the Aran Islands. Fishing is a small but important part of the area's economy.

The islands are the home of the Aran sweater, which has gained world-wide appeal during the course of the 20th century. Much of its popularity can be attributed to the enthusiasm and engagement of Pádraig Ó Síocháin, who deeply cherished the islands, their people and their native traditions after he first arrived there in the fifties, recording life as it was then on endless reels of film. The Aran sweater, or Arran sweater, which takes its name from the Aran Islands, was popular in the fishing villages on and islands off the West Coast of Ireland, or from the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland. ... a picture of a ship wreck on the coast of one of the aran Islands. ... a picture of a ship wreck on the coast of one of the aran Islands. ... The Aran sweater, or Arran sweater, which takes its name from the Aran Islands, was popular in the fishing villages on and islands off the West Coast of Ireland, or from the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland. ... P.A. Ó Siocháin in 1985, age 80, modelling one of his Aran cardigans. ... For other uses, see Tradition (disambiguation). ...

Aran knitting is often falsely associated with the Scottish Isle of Arran.^[2] This article is about the country. ... The Isle of Arran (Scots Gaelic: Eilean Arainn) is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde with an area of 430 km² (167 square miles). ...

The Aran currach

The (modern) Aran version of the light-weight boat called the currach (Aran Islands Dialect: kørəx, korəx) is made from canvas stretched over a sparse skeleton of thin laths, then covered in tar. It is designed to withstand the very rough seas that are typical of islands that face the open Atlantic. Indeed, it is said that the Aran fishermen would not learn to swim, since they would certainly not survive any sea that swamped a Currach and so it would be better to drown quickly. Despite the undoubted strength of these boats, they are very vulnerable to puncture. A Currach or Curach is a type of boat with a wooden frame, over which is stretched animal skins or hides. ... Ewer from Iran, dated 1180-1210CE. Composed of brass worked in repoussé and inlaid with silver and bitumen. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...

The islanders were always totally self sufficient. In calmer weather the Currachs would go out and spend the night fishing under the Cliffs of Moher , returning after dawn full with fish. Nowadays they are only used inshore, tending lobster-pots. More modern versions are still built for racing at the many local regattas, or "Cruinnius" up and down the west coast of Ireland during the summer months. Looking north towards OBriens Tower The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair, Cliffs of the ruin) are located in the parish of Liscannor at the south-western edge of The Burren area near Doolin, which is located in County Clare, Republic of Ireland. ... A regatta is a boat race or series of boat races. ...

Conventional shoes cannot be worn, so the fishermen wear soft calf-skin moccasins called pampooties, made of goatskin or cowskin. The word moccasin was first introduced into English in 1612, from a Virginia Algonquian language, most likely Powhatan (makasin ‘shoe’), though similar words exist in Narragansett (mokussin), Micmac (m’kusun), and Ojibwa (makasin). ...

Popular Culture

The Aran Islands have found more recent fame and experienced a boost in tourism as a result of being featured in the television comedy Father Ted. The show is set on the fictional Craggy Island, but local sights such as the Plessey shipwreck feature in the opening sequence to the show, and the island of Inishmore hosted a Friends of Ted festival in 2007. Father Ted was a popular 1990s television situation comedy set around the lives of three priests on the extremely remote (and completely fictional) Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland. ... Craggy Island is a fictional island off the west coast of Ireland and is the primary setting for the comedy television series Father Ted. ... , The Aran Islands East Beach, Inishmore Inis Mór / Árainn Mhór (English: ) is the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay in the Republic of Ireland, and has an area of twelve square miles. ...

(The right to be the "official" home of Craggy Island was disputed with smaller neighbour Inisheer, and settled - in appropriate fashion - by a fiercely contested 5-a-side football match. The title will be decided in a similar manner in early 2008). Inisheer (Irish: Inis Thiar or Inis Oirthir / Inis Oírr) is the smallest and most eastern of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland. ...

The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a popular play written by Martin McDonagh which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 11 April 2001. It also had a run on Broadway in New York City where it was nominated for 5 Tony awards, and now is played all over the world. The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, who wrote the Tony award winning play, The Pillowman, which played at the Booth Theatre from April to September of 2005. ... Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a contemporary Irish playwright. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award® but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. ...

Bibliography

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Notes

1. ^ The official Irish name for the large island is Árainn from the traditional name Árainn Mhór. However, the British Ordnance Survey, when surveying the landscape of west Ireland, invented the name Inishmore for the largest island, now commonly gaelicised as (Inis Mór), probably to avoid confusion with Aran Island in County Donegal. This new name has gained widespread acceptance.
2. ^ Morris, Johnny. "Grail Trail", The Telegraph, 2006-03-18. Retrieved on 2007-02-24. .

Part of an Ordnance Survey map at 1 inch to the mile scale from 1945 Ordnance Survey (OS) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. ... Aran Island can refer to several places: Arranmore or Aran Island off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland Aran Islands in Galway Bay in Ireland Isle of Arran, one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland Category: ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Connacht Irish
• Dún Aengus
• List of RNLI stations
• Saint Benan
• Inis Beag

Connacht Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Connacht. ... A view over the karst landscape on Inishmore, from Dún Aengus, an ancient stone fort Dún Aengus (Irish: Dún Aonghasa) is the most famous of several prehistoric forts on the Aran Isles, of Co. ... List of Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations by county. ... Benan (Latin: , the doer of good, Irish: ) was reputedly the first and most favoured apostle of the national saint of Ireland, St. ... Inis Beag (Gaelic: Little Island) is a pseudonym given by the cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger to an isolated small Gaelic-speaking Irish Catholic community on one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Connemara in Ireland, in his study Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community. During...

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• Aran Islands travel guide from Wikitravel
• Official Guide to the Aran Islands
• Irish Government Information on Inhabited Offshore Islands
• http://www.marinetimes.ie/aran.html
• Guided Bus tours of the Aran Islands featuring the famous fort Dun Aonghasa

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• Guardian article on Inis Meain
• Western Australia has a link to the Aran Islands
• An interesting documentary made in 1934 about the Aran Islands

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