Great Blasket Island is a remote island off the coast of Ireland. Billy O'Connor and Alice Hayes run tours and guesthouses on the island. They are hiring two caretakers to run operations from April 1 ...

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Alice Hayes and Billy O'Connor run Great Blasket Island, an uninhabited island off the Irish coast. Every year, they search for caretakers to move to the island during the tourist season. They said ...

Three miles out to sea, stark against the western horizon, storm clouds are swirling above the Great Blasket. The future of this unique island, renowned for its desolate beauty, its crumbling ruins ...

A couple quit their jobs in London to become caretakers of a remote Irish island. Dan Regan and Emily Campbell run a coffee shop and cottages on Great Blasket Island. With no running water or ...

The Irish dream job of working as a caretaker on the stunning Great Blasket Island off the coast of Co Kerry is set to open for applications this week. Billy O'Connor and his partner Alice Hayes, who ...

Peig Sayers was one of just a few hundred native Irish speakers on Great Blasket Island, a tiny island just off the west coast of Ireland. "Sayers was story teller, a conveyor, a holder within her ...

Michael J. Carney was 16 when he left the Great Blasket Island, a mile off the mainland of Ireland, in 1937, leaving behind eight siblings and his parents to find better opportunities, including in ...

The story is updated with reaction in the Irish media, as well as from U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield. It has also been updated with funeral information. A notable Gaelic Irish speaker and a ...

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