One summer night in 1890, illuminated by a dim light in the nook of a churchyard wall, two scientists visiting Inishbofin, an island off Ireland’s Atlantic coast, spotted something peculiar: about 40 ...
The remains of 13 people that were taken from Inishbofin, off County Galway, in the 19th century have been returned to the island. Anthropologist Alfred Haddon and his colleague Andrew Dixon removed ...
Trinity College Dublin is to return human remains to the island of Inishbofin off the coast of Co Galway from where they were taken without the community’s consent more than a century ago. Trinity's ...
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The human remains have been returned by Trinity College Dublin Bones taken from the Irish island of Inishbofin 133 years ago have been returned Thirteen skulls and other fragments were given back by ...
The skulls, returned by Trinity College Dublin, were reburiedCredit: INISHBOFIN HERITAGE MUSEUM The bones — thought to be around 400 years old — were swiped in the middle of the night from a monastery ...
The sun shone across the ruins of St Colman’s abbey as the outline of the Twelve Pins etched the mainland sky when Inishbofin islander Marie Coyne took a spade to help cover the grave of her forebears ...
Out of all the anniversaries, 133 isn't the most exciting. It doesn't have the brand recognition of a 50, 75 or even 125; it has no name, no paper, crystal or gold. But for the people of Inishbofin, ...
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