252 | Life to the Full – Eileen O’Driscoll – Heritage in the Southwest of Ireland

Eileen continues her tour of Ireland's lighthouse coast, moving further west to Bear Island: a place the size of Manhattan, with graffiti cut into roadside stone by American sailors stationed there in 1918, and a Holy Year cross the islanders hauled to the summit by hand in 1950 with no machinery to help them. She closes out at the Bull Rock, a rock too small to land a boat on, and the engineering feat it took to give it a working lighthouse by 1889. Traditional music, including two reels from her own album, threads through the hour. L'articolo 252 | Life to the Full – Eileen O’Driscoll – Heritage in the Southwest of Ireland proviene da Radio Maria.