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Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.

My name is Finn Dwyer and this is the Inishke Island mysteries.

There has been a big delay in getting this podcast out, apologies for that, but I have been pretty sick since the last show.

I have a chronic illness that flared up which led to hospitalization and then actually

eventually surgery. I'm slowly getting better but all this has delayed the return to the Great Baman series.

However, being laid up did give me a chance to read a bit and that's when I stumbled across the unusual story of the Inishke Islands.

The lives of these islanders on what is now a lonely shore has enchanted mystified but also unsettled

writers, travellers and commentators since the early 19th century.

If you do even the most basic of research into the islands, most descriptions

will talk about the rugged beauty of the place, but it won't take long before you encounter

strange rumors of pagans and pirates who elected their own kings until the late 19th century.

The more I read about the islands, the more I became intrigued and I went back to find the earliest

accounts to try and make sense of these strange

rumours.

So in this show I'll be looking at how did people survive in what was one of the most

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