BLASKET ISLAND IRELAND, 1958 IRISH RADIO AMATEURS' OUTING

A silent 8mm movie filmed by Maurice Lyons, back around 1958 or 1959, when he lived in Tralee, and accompanied the 'Irish Radio Amateurs' on a group outing to Blasket Island, Ireland. Nothing more is known about this film, but shared on You Tube, as novelty viewing for people associated with Blasket Island, Kerry, or even the Irish Radio Amateurs' association.

It seems that the association is still very much up and running: http://www.irts.ie/cgi/index.cgi

The Elsie Mabel, the boat that picked the group up from the island, features in other films from the fifties of the area...Dingle in the fifties: James C. Houlihan's home movies: Blessing of the Boats(1951 and two other years) - Fife and Drum band - the blessing on the pier - boats at the harbours mouth and virtually the entire flotilla sailing in the harbour. Boats included are: ELSIE MABEL(Pats "Waistcoat" Brosnan)... http://indigo.ie/~tomfox/video.html

More about the Blaskets...
http://www.kerryholiday.co.uk/blaskets.html

If you can offer any background, or identify any of the people in the film, please leave comments.

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