Tag Archives: Aran Islands

“Even with a machine gun, ye still wouldn’t clear the place of rabbits. We need something more drastic. Gas didn’t work. Guns don’t work. Dogs didn’t work… I don’t know.”

1985.

Wabbit ‘infestation’ on the Aran Islands.

Thanks Ruadhain

Not bad, as it happens.

Sophia Heather writes:

Doolin Ferry Co. has once again set sail between the Aran Islands and the Cliffs of Moher for the Summer season. Signifying hope for the tourism sector, the boat tour of the year winner has finally welcomed passengers back aboard their fleet of ferries.

In  fairness.

Doolin Ferry Company

Saturday/Sunday

Inis Mór, Aran Islands, County Galway.

Scenes from the biggest-ever Tedfest featuring star turns from Fr Damo (Joe Rooney – above far left)) and Eoin McLove (Patrick McDonell – above second right).

The annual gathering is now in its 14th year.

In fairness.

Tedfest 2020

Thanks Helen O’Dwyer

parade2

Yesterday.

Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co Galway.

John Gallen writes:

  A parade not too dissimilar to the ones I remember as a kid out West :)

It drags a little at the end though, in fairness.

Aran Islands (Facebook)

Meanwhile…

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The Denis O’Brien float at the Letterkenny, Co Donegal parade.

Rathfarnham Against the Water Charges (Facebook)

514_400x400_NoPeel-1orgasm(A summary of the Messenger Inis Beag study – our Kinsey – conducted in the late 1950s/early 1960s with a focus on women. Inis Beag is a pseudonym for Inisheer in the Aran Islands photographed, top, in 1955)

For the day that’s in it.

Come a long way, in fairness.

Previously: Twas The Night Before National Orgasm Day

Extract via Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies

Pic via Cafe Press

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus