Sligo

 

 

 

Bere Island (West Cork)

 

 

Dingle Peninsula

 

(blurred) Kerry

 

 

West Cork

 

 

Aran Islands

 

 

 

Kerry

 

Aran Islands

 

 

County Galway

 

 

Castletownbere (West Cork)

 

Donegal

 

 

Aran Islands

 

 

West Cork

 

 

Castletownbere

 

 

West Cork

 

County Clare

"On my first night in the Gaeltach the old woman spoke to me in English: "You´ll be all rignt." I sat on a twilit bedside listening through the wall to fluent Irish, homesick for a speech I was to extirpate.    

I had come west to inhale the absolute weather".

SEAMUS HEANEY "The stations of the west"