Whitaker, whose death, at age 100, was announced this morning, by a strange co-incidence. They wanted out.ĭe Valera established an interdepartmental commission to look at what could be done about the islanders' situation - and one of those appointed to the commission was the late great T.K. They had lost the will to live on their native island as the population had fallen to less than a third of what it was in its heyday. Mike Carney, to the then Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, asking him and his Government to do something about the islanders' plight. His death precipitated angst and action - a letter was sent personally by Seáinín's brother, later known as Dr.
His death was 'the straw that broke the camel's back' of the islanders' determination to stay on their beloved 'rock'. His name was Seán Ó Ceárna (Seáinín 'Nain' Ó Ceárna) or John Kearney. "On this day, 10 January, 1947 - 70 years ago to the day - a young man (25) died of meningitis on Great Blasket Island, off SW Ireland. If you visit the Island, I truly believe you can still feel the sense of loss in the ruined village.Some of the houses are being restored to what they were at the time of the evacuation and should be ready by this summer.
I'm posting the piece below so that people might understand why the Islanders finally had no real choice but to leave their home. The wonderful Blasket historian Micheal De Mordha reminds us that a death on the Great Blasket, 70 years ago today was the beginning of the end for the island.
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