AT INNESKEA
Sir, — Christmas once more, and old associations revived; the kindly customs handed down from generations past all crowd on us with memories of this holy season. Alas, that along the western seaboard, 'which is named the Gaelacht, and amongst those lovely islands so graphically described by George Birmingham (Canon Hannay), there is heard the wail of the Irish (Caoine) keen. At Inniskea all the breadwinners were drowned in the last disastrous gale which swept the Atlantic shores. The Land Commissioner, reporting to the Free State, gives a pathetic account of the distress among widows and orphans. “Relief works can do nothing here,” he says, “because all the male workers have met; with a watery grave.” I know the fishermen of the Gaelacht well. My
youth was spent amongst them. It is worthy of note that the French Government has more than once recognised their gallantry in saving shipwrecked crews. •CLAN-CON AL.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 8
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153AT INNESKEA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 8
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