Transtion Years will visit the Blasket Centre on Monday 3rd October.
The Blasket Centre in Dún Chaoin, at the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, celebrates the Irish language and the distinctive character of the people who once lived on the Blasket Islands. A main focus of the Centre is the unique literary achievements of this isolated community off the Kerry coast which was evacuated in 1953.
The exhibits include sections on weather and seasons, the place of loneliness, the sea, biographies, writers, and Islanders. It boasts state-of-the-art multi-media which will even teach you cúpla foca gaeilge (a few words of Irish)! Artwork is incorporated into the exhibits, including Cathy Carmen’s “Women at the Well”, Michael Quane’s external stone sculpture of “The Islandman”, and RóisÃn de Buitléar’s glasswork wall, “The Journey”, the largest secular glass work in Ireland.
The Blasket Centre facilities include a video presentation, exhibition, research room, car/coach parking, restaurant, conference facilities, and bookshop.