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Product Description The Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies), and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket's history when the flying galleons of the Spanish Aramada were destroyed on its coast. Review `Part of a unique and remarkable Irish literary archive... compelling.'Neil Johnston, Belfast Telegraph, 24/6/00