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The Potato Famine
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The Village of the Dead is all about the living. Slievemore, Achill Island.
Achill Island, Ireland. Such a stunningly beautiful place to experience such profound sadness.Of all the fraught tales of Ireland, none gets near the collective pain of the Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, several names for one massive tragedy: one million people died, one million left for the US. Done by 1851 for the most part,…
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Achill Island, Ireland: Croghaun mountain and the (very) Wild Atlantic Way.
For a wanderer, everything begins and ends with the humans you meet. This tale begins with Jon Brannen, of the same named pub and BnB in Newport, county Mayo, Ireland. He was a hiker, a gruff and burly man who wore his kindness in his words. I was staying at his place and with a…
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