![]() ![]() ![]() The building itself is stunning and the whole experience is very moving. It brings the island’s people, history, and culture to life through imaginative displays and interactive exhibitions. The Blasket Centre is a fascinating heritage museum which reopened last year after a €3 million facelift and honours the unique community who lived on the remote Blasket Islands until their evacuation in 1953. People like to joke that Ireland is a great country if only you could only put a roof on it, well Kerry County Council have installed picnic bench areas with very simple roofs that look smart and provide ample cover for tourists dodging one of those Irish cloudbursts with simultaneous pelting rain and bright sunshine. It’s pretty special to think there were people constructing dry stone beehive huts without mortar on this inhospitable corner a thousand years ago and we can still marvel at their craftsmanship today.ĭingle town is beautifully presented with terraces of cheerful painted businesses and not a derelict or graffitied facade in sight. In a break with tradition, I’m just back from a weekend in Kerry on the Dingle Peninsula soaking up the wildness of Slea Head.
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