A wonderful oil painting of The Blasket Islands off the coast of the Dingle Peninsula. One of these islands, The Great Blasket also known as Inishmore, which is the largest, was inhabited until the 1950's when it was abandoned due to population decline and it is best known for a number of Irish language writers who vividly described their way of life and who kept alive old Irish folk tales of the land. You can visit the island in the Summer months and there is a large seal colony that can be found basking of the beach. They are a dominating view on the Slea Head Drive and it is hard to imagine fisherman from the past heading out to sea in their Curraghs.
