Public Project
The Silent Land
Copyright Tiberio Ventura 2024
Updated May 2015
Location aran islands
Topics Agriculture, Borders, Community, Documentary, Environment, Environmental, Isolation, Landscape, Migration, Mixed Medium, Personal, Photojournalism, Portraiture, The Silent Land

The aim of this project is to investigate the landscape and culture of the inhabitants living on The

Aran Islands. The Aran Islands are located on the west coast of Ireland at the mouth of Galway Bay.

The Aran Islands consist of: Inishmore, this being the largest of the three islands followed by

Inishmaan and then Inisheer which is the smallest. The Population of the islands is 1200. The

majority of which speak Gaelic,but for the most part the inhabitants are also fluent in English. I will

focus on the geo-political location of the three islands, which is at the border of Europe. The

geographic position of the Aran Islands plays an important part in the economy and lifestyle of the

Islands' inhabitants. In fact as Russell King and John Connell have stated in their book "Small

Words, Global Lives, Islands and Migration", the words 'Islands' and 'Migration' are always linked

together. The phenomenon of emigration is very frequent on islands due to the absence of economic

alternatives (King and Connell, 1999).

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