When news of another storm hits our screens most of us will batten down the hatches, but really only metaphorically. For islanders, on the frontline of weather rolling in, battling the elements is a real and everyday occurrence.
There are days and weeks when they are surrounded by the elements, grey skies and sea all morphing into one, rollers higher than a house and winds that have beaten any trees or bushes into hunched submission. There is no sight of the mainland and this level of detachedness has taught them to be self-sufficient and stoic.
“We understand resilience,” says Jerry Early, a second-generation islander who runs Early’s bar on Arranmore in Co Donegal, but on the day we talk is stranded on the mainland because of storms. He takes this in his stride because it is just one of the many additional layers there is to life on our offshore islands.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/wintering-on-an-irish-island-when-the-weather-closes-in-it-is-amazing-1.3721346
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