A Sacred Place: Skellig Michael
Beehive huts on Skellig Michael; Little Skellig peaking out of clouds in background. County Kerry, Ireland. Photo: Chris Ryan. Beehive huts on Skellig Michael; Little Skellig peaking out of clouds in background. County Kerry, Ireland. Photo: Chris Ryan. By Chris Ryan, Contributor
Photographer and writer Chris Ryan visited the larger of the two Skellig Islands off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, where an early-medieval monastery survives at the edge of the material world.
Start at the Dublin offices of Google or Facebook, drive to the southwest tip of Ireland, hop a boat, journey seven miles out to sea, and climb 600 steps clinging to the edge of a steep, jagged island – in only seven hours or so you’ll have made one of the farthest journeys you can make today. You’ll have traveled from one of the hubs of modern, superconnected civilization to a windbeaten perch where for 600 years a handful of intrepid asc
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SATIRICAL magazine Private Eye has weighed into the current rumpus over plans to redevelop Worcester’s historic Lowesmoor Wharf. And its intervention has echoes from the 1960s, when a national newspaper article forever blighted the city’s massive Lychgate scheme at the southern end of High Street. Back then a feature in The Guardian by Geoffrey Moorhouse described the wholescale clearance of slum/period (depending on your point of view) properties in streets only yards from the cathedral as “The Sack of Worcester”. And the phrase has stuck. Now the Nooks and Corners column in the Eye brands the plans for Lowesmoor Wharf “a huge, overbearing regeneration scheme”.