Joan and Ray Stagles first visited the Great Blasket Island in 1966, and returned annually as the island and its history became a passion with them. Joan died in 1978 and her husband continued her research and writing on the island to produce this testament to the island people.
Joan and Ray Stagles first visited the Great Blasket Island in 1966, and returned annually as the island and its history became a passion with them. Joan died in 1978 and her husband continued her research and writing on the island to produce this testament to the island people.
A beautifully illustrated and compelling history of the life, traditions and customs of the people of the Blasket Islands - an isolated community that has now disappeared. The book traces the fate of the Blasket people and the slow erosion of their culture to that sad day in 1952 when the families were evacuated from the Great Blasket Island.
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