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[Louanne Learning]

This video short showed up in my feed - about the Vanderbilt mansion called "The Breakers" in Rhode Island

@Homer Potvin - have you ever visited it?

 

[Louanne Learning]

here's something else that showed up in my feed this morning.

I Googled it, and indeed the Irish government is providing grants to persons willing to relocate to Irish island communities.

I didn't see anything about exactly who could apply. @Rigor Mortis - have you heard about this plan?

 

[Rigor Mortis]

here's something else that showed up in my feed this morning.

I Googled it, and indeed the Irish government is providing grants to persons willing to relocate to Irish island communities.

I didn't see anything about exactly who could apply. @Rigor Mortis - have you heard about this plan?


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I can't say I know too much about island-specific inducements, though I am aware that there are refurbishment grants for restoring derelict dwellings, directly attributable to our housing crisis. My wife's friends have availed of this grant in restoring a property not far from me (inland, in Co Tipperary) and, by meeting the strict criteria relating to timeframe and structural specifics, were eligible for, I think, about 80K grant assistance (it would be rude to ask if it was paid over yet, but I'll ask my wife). Here's a link to gov.ie about the scheme:
Our Living Islands

I know there's a regular application process for caretakers on Blasket Islands, now unpopulated, from where Peig Sayers was amongst the last to leave middle of last Century. Ask any Irish person about Leaving Certificate Irish and they'll moan about Peig Sayers for longer than you're willing to listen.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Here's a link to gov.ie about the scheme:
Our Living Islands

yes, that's the same link in my post.

I can see a lot of people taking advantage of this.

I wonder if Canadians can apply. And I also wonder if the islands have WiFi!

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Cursory read but it looks like wifi connectivity is explicitly mentioned as an incentive.

There's hardship as well as serenity to be found on those islands. The Atlantic can be most forbidding, though maybe only for nine months of the year. It's impossible for the other three. The take-up, I'd guess, is sparse. I'd be surprised if Canadians weren't viewed favourably if they were considering the move. Your embassy here, or ours there, should be able to provide necessary deatils.

 

[Homer Potvin]

This video short showed up in my feed - about the Vanderbilt mansion called "The Breakers" in Rhode Island

@Homer Potvin - have you ever visited it?

Oh, yeah. Several times. The Newport mansions are crazy and The Breakers is like Versailles. Totally worth visiting if you're in the area.

 

[Louanne Learning]

There's hardship as well as serenity to be found on those islands. The Atlantic can be most forbidding, though maybe only for nine months of the year. It's impossible for the other three.

It's such a fabled place, and I imagine the wild nature takes your breath away with its beauty.

I'd be surprised if Canadians weren't viewed favourably if they were considering the move.

It sure would be an inspirational place to write.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Totally worth visiting if you're in the area.

Definitely a possibility in the future.

I find that the more I travel, the more I want to travel.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

It sure would be an inspirational place to write.

These days, writers go there to be productive. Old days, writers emerged there because there was little else to do.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

A great hiraeth came over me

Oh, you used one of my favorite words. Hiraeth was the working title of my first book. I knew it would be changed, but I took such pleasure in using the word even briefly.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Hiraeth

I had to look it up - defined as a deep longing for something, especially one's home.

Seem like a word that can be worked into this month's flash fiction contest, with its prompt of "new home"

 

[CatrionaGrace]

It's more than a longing for home. It's a fervant, grief-tinged yearning for a home or place that no longer exists or that never existed in the first place. It's most often used in context with Wales and Welsh culture, and describes a homesickness so deep that it affects one's soul.

 

[Louanne Learning]

It's more than a longing for home. It's a fervant, grief-tinged yearning for a home or place that no longer exists or that never existed in the first place. It's most often used in context with Wales and Welsh culture, and describes a homesickness so deep that it affects one's soul.

That reminds me of another word I once heard but I can't think of it - I think it began with an s

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Saturday. On Mondays, one often feels deep, grief-tinged longing for Saturday.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm just about to go out for a lunch date. See you all later!

 

[Catrin Lewis]

That reminds me of another word I once heard but I can't think of it - I think it began with an s

Sehnsucht?

 

[Homer Potvin]

A nice little getaway to Lake George in upstate New York. Surprisingly only 3.5 hours from home in RI, almost exactly the same travel time in NYC. It's nice. A little ghetto, but so is everything lake/seaside. We're in a motel with a pool overlooking a busy 4 lane road, which is poetically awesome in its own sense. After 6 Peronis it might as well be the South of France.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Sehnsucht?

Bless you.

 

[Set2Stun]

I would love to live on an isolated Irish island, though I'd still need some way to earn a living. I can get a Finnish passport, so I am pretty sure I could work and live anywhere in the EU. But yeah even with the 90 grand I would need some money coming in.

Hadn't done any submissions for a whole month, which is weird for me, so I did a few today. For one of them I copied/pasted from a previous query and I forgot to change the name of the publication

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I've a brother, his daughter and son, and, separately, two of my sisters each have a son living in Canada. We can certainly make a bit of space on uninhabited islands for as many Canadians as want to make the move.

Regarding the submission error, I've done a lot worse than that.