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Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin
Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin was the last native child of the Great Blasket and is the only survivor of those evacuated from the island in 1953. When he lived on the Great Blasket, the nearest in age ...view moreGearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin was the last native child of the Great Blasket and is the only survivor of those evacuated from the island in 1953. When he lived on the Great Blasket, the nearest in age to him was his uncle, who was thirty years older. As a child, Gearóid became famous worldwide when a newspaper article dubbing him the loneliest boy in the world was printed all around the globeview less