“Rugged as the people who settled here more than 3,000 years ago, the sea-chiseled limestone bluffs of Inishmore rise 300 feet above the Atlantic. Inland, hundreds of miles of stone walls ring thin-soiled fields where islanders toil in a land known for ciúnas gan uaigneas, Gaelic for ‘quietness without loneliness.’”

— Text from "The Aran Islands: Ancient Hearts Modern Minds," April 1996, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)