On this day, the government transferred most of the remaining residents from the Blasket Islands to the Irish mainland because of increasingly extreme winter weather that left the island’s ageing population cut off from emergency services. The evacuation was seen as necessary by both the islanders and the government. At its peak, the islands had 175 Irish-speaking residents, but by 1953 this population had declined to just 22. The Ó Suilleabháin family was reluctant to leave, and became the final family to depart Great Blasket Island the following year. Around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, the islanders became the subject of much anthropological and linguistic study. Encouraged by this interest, some of the islanders themselves wrote a number of books that record much of the islands’ traditions and way of life. Today, there is a ferry service to Great Blasket Island, mainly for day-trippers, and people can also camp on the island overnight.
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