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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Three small islands of western Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay. They are noted for their Iron Age ruins and for their distinctive knitware.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay
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Examples
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More to the geographic point, McDonagh is targeting life on Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, a collection of remote, scenic rocks where the rugged denizens have for centuries been tolerating the punishing elements - and one another.
McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life Peter Marks 2011
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My sea kayak circumnavigation of Ireland stalled here for several weeks and I spent many evenings with a borrowed guitar banging out old tunes. • dickmacks.homestead.comDoolin is jumping off point for ferries out to the Aran Islands but it's long been known that there's as good or better traditional music here than on the mainland.
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Yes, Irish grandfathers really do speak that way, and when you're lads just over for the first time from built-up gray Dublin, you catch and remember every new thing; every word, every color of brown, blue, and green as you stand on each side of Grandfather, who puts a hand on your shoulder and looks out to the Aran Islands in Galway Bay.
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The Aran Islands, Inisheer, Inishmore, and Inishmaan are off the coast of Galway a few miles from Kilfenora.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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And in going to the Aran Islands he found a people that faced death, and he lived with them.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Leslie and I walked a couple dozen miles on Inis Mór, part of the Aran Islands in the Galway Bay off Ireland.
The Choice doyle 2009
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It is hard for me to think about the Aran Islands, the three rugged outposts off the coast of Galway, without dreaming of a perfect pint of Guinness on a drizzling summer afternoon, when all hopes of walking, or cycling, or swimming had been gloriously dampened by the weather, and there was only one place to go, and that was the pub.
Old, Heavy, Bitter and Divine Colm Tóibín 2009
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Should I decide to spend the rest of my life on the Aran Islands, I do not want my last post to be about Arne.
Puddles doyle 2009
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Should I decide to spend the rest of my life on the Aran Islands, I do not want my last post to be about Arne.
Archive 2009-07-01 doyle 2009
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It's a short one act piece based on a play by Irish author J.M.Synge that takes place on one of the Aran Islands.
Archive 2008-12-01 Will 2008
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