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Great Blasket Island
Great Blasket Island. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Great Blasket (Irish: An Blascaod Mór) is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, Ireland. It was home to a small fishing community of Irish speakers until the island was abandoned in 1953 when living there became unsustainable.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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