A Photo of Gearoid O'Cathaoir

A Photo of Gearoid O'Cathaoir

1st August 1955; A Photo of Gearoid O'Cathaoir, 'The Lonliest Boy in the World', aged 8, at Dunquin. Gearoid was the last schoolboy to live on the Great Blasket Island before it was evacuated in 1953.

Photo ID: QBK018
Created: August 01, 1955
Author: © Padraig & Joan Kennelly/Kennelly Archive
Photo size: 22.9 Mpixels (65.6 MB uncompressed) - 3832x5984 pixels (12.8x19.9 in / 32.4x50.7 cm at 300 ppi)

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