Great Blasket Island - Off The Irish Coast
by Mark E Tisdale
Title
Great Blasket Island - Off The Irish Coast
Artist
Mark E Tisdale
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Painting And Illustration
Description
There's one place in Ireland that I only saw from a distance but it captured my imagination and that was the Blasket Islands. The largest one in the chain, The Great Blasket, dominates this coastal landscape you see.
The Blasket just off the Dingle Peninsula was occupied by a hardy people up until 1953 when the island was evacuated. The modern world had finally spelled the end to a rough and tumble way of life that was dominated by living with the harsh elements. A handful of days on the Aran Islands was as close as I would come to experiencing life on the Blasket. But when I read Tomas O'Crohan's The Islandman, my mind always returned to the howling wind and rain from my few days on Inishmore. His autobiographical tales of life on the Blasket are one of several well-known books that documented the way of life there in the closing chapter of Blasket history.
I saw the Blasket from the Slea Head Road early in my month in Ireland. It was a cold winter day but the sun shone brightly on a new day and a new year as I gazed out to sea at those rugged but beautiful islands. I've read that some of the people who once called it home live on the mainland in Dingle now while many others made their way to America.
To see more of my Irish artwork and more, be sure to check out tisdaleart.com
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June 19th, 2015
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