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1980, Joan & Ray Stagles, The Blasket Islands, Dublin: The O'Brien Press, →ISBN, page 37:Synge clearly supposed the old man to have been born and bred on the inish, and it is interesting to see how little consciousness is shown, even by native Blasket writers, of Big Maurice Daly's mainland origin.
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1870, William Frederick Wakeman, Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Belleek, Ballyshannon, and Bundoran, Dublin: John Mullany, →OCLC, page 69:Our course is still in the broad lough, though now through an archipelago of islands—Inishlaght, Aghinish, Inishcrevan, Inishturk, Trannish, Inishore, Inishcorkish, and goodness knows how many more Inishes, the names of which, as they are possessed of no especial interest, we need not now dwell upon
1894 June 2, Charles Edwardes, “The Cliff Scenery of Donegal”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 11, number 544, Edinburgh: William & Robert Chambers, →OCLC, page 339:The Foreland Hill, however, is worth ascending. It is a round lump of land about a thousand feet high, more than a mile from the coast, north and west. Hence the various islets off the shore (divers Inishes) are seen clearly.