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Inishmore Island, Aran Islands, Ireland, 1993 Photograph by Sam Abell
"Rugged as the people who settled here more than 3,000 years ago, the
sea-chiseled limestone bluffs of Inishmore rise 300 feet above the
Atlantic. Inland, hundreds of miles of stone walls ring thin-soiled
fields where islanders toil in a land known for cinas gan uaigneas,
Gaelic for 'quietness without loneliness.'"

 Text from "The Aran Islands: Ancient Hearts Modern Minds," April
1996, National Geographic magazine

 (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on
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