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Inishmore, the Aran Islands
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The Aran Islands are treeless, harborless rocks rising from one of the roughest seas in the world. The thin layer of soil in which the people grow their few crops has been for the most part laboriously constructed from sand, seaweed & manure, composted on a floor of broken-up stones.
Today large boats travel to and from the Irish mainland, & tourists visit the islands in season. But this seems to make little impression. One can believe that what Synge wrote in 1907 may even still be true: "In Ireland, for a few more years, we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent and tender." |
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