Off the coast of Co Kerry, two jagged islands rise out of the Atlantic Ocean - ruggedly beautiful with centuries of history hewn into their very rock. These are the Skelligs – Skellig Michael ...

One of the most otherworldly scenes in "The Force Awakens" was filmed on Skellig Michael, an island located six miles off the coast of Ireland. The shoot there was shrouded in secrecy, and locals ...

Living on Valentia island means that the world-famous Skellig Michael is not far from June O’Sullivan’s doorstep. Indeed, a visit to the world famous UNESCO site eventually led to the local ...

I live on Valentia Island in Kerry but I am not from here. I am a “blow-in” and when I first started visiting these parts I had never heard of Skellig Michael ... Life in Ireland in the ...

Ireland is home to more than 80 islands ... But you won’t regret trekking to these five relatively obscure islands. Skellig Michael Picture a “Honey, We Shrunk Machu Picchu” surrounded ...

June O’Sullivan spent much of her childhood in Newcastle West and Knockaderry. She is set to release her debut novel on the first week of February, called The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife, a fictional ...

At its southwestern tip, Ireland frays and fragments into ... The park's greatest "jewel" is Skellig Michael, a vertiginous island that was "the very edge of the known world" for the monks who ...

In 1867, Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband, James, and sons, Peter and Joseph, to the remote island of Skellig Michael, off the coast of Kerry. Eliza is proud of her husband ...

IT WAS a real pleasure to attend the launch of an exhibition of oil paintings in Birr Library on Wednesday evening; a ...