Blow-ins

West Cork by sambungey

Mar 29, 202127:52Society & Culture

West Cork, Ireland is an outpost at the edge of Europe, the jumping-off point for America. Rugged windswept and coastal, it was a place of farmers and fisherman until the 1960’s, when it was discovered by the ‘blow-in’s....

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