Qualla: Inishmore https://qualla.com/inishmore en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Inishmore https://qualla.com/inishmore Inishmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit User:Jpatokal, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name on the map is younger than the island's oldest stone walls. "Inishmore" was an Anglicization concocted by the Ordnance Survey in 1839, and there is no documentary evidence of anyone using it before then. The island had always simply been Árainn or Inis Mór - the big island - and under the Official Languages Act of 2003, Árainn is again the only legal placename. The remapping took the better part of two centuries to undo. The walls and the fortresses, meanwhile, have not budged.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/gc3n-inishmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Inishmore: The Geological Outlier https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit Alvaro, CC BY-SA 3.0. At 31 square kilometres, Inishmore is the second-largest island off the Irish coast - behind only Achill - and the most populated of the Aran group, with 820 residents recorded in 2016. Geologically it is not really an island at all. It is a continuation of the Burren of County C...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/gc3n-inishmore-the-geological-outlier.mp3 0:06 2 full Inishmore: The Most Magnificent Barbaric Monument https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit Tuoermin, CC BY-SA 3.0. George Petrie, writing in the 19th century, picked his words deliberately. Calling Dún Aonghasa "the most magnificent barbaric monument in Europe" was not condescension but classification: barbaric in the original Greek sense, of something from outside the literate Mediterranean ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/gc3n-inishmore-the-most-magnificent-barbaric-monument.mp3 0:06 3 full Inishmore: The Prison Island https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit The original uploader was Cro-Magnon at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Inishmore's stone walls did double duty during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The Commonwealth of England had decreed in 1653 that all Roman Catholic priests be banished, and clergy who continued their ministry in defiance were arrested. Inishmore and Inishbofin became pris...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/gc3n-inishmore-the-prison-island.mp3 0:06 4 full Inishmore: Saints and Salvages https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit Cadbytim, CC BY-SA 4.0. Enda of Aran, the founding saint, died around AD 530. The Annals record his successors: Nem Moccu Birn in 654, Colmán mac Comán in 751, Egnech bishop and anchorite in 916. The monastic line continued century after century. By the time the Friary system flourished, Inishmore had a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/n/inishmore-wp/gc3n-inishmore-saints-and-salvages.mp3 0:06 5 full Inishmore: Sweaters and Cameras https://qualla.com/inishmore/ Photo credit Alvaro, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Aran sweater - cream-white, cabled, knitted from undyed wool - became a global garment in the 20th century, although many of the sweaters now sold to tourists in Kilronan are made elsewhere in Ireland. Robert Flaherty's 1934 docu-fiction Man of Aran turned the island into an ...

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