Arranmore Island, Ireland In 2004 -

IRELAND - CIRCA 2004: Arranmore Island, Ireland in 2004 - Nothing much happens on the Island : the sea, depleted of all its wealth by overfishing, is nearly bare of fishes ; only a handful of locals are still fishing, mainly seasonally and in small punt ; a lot of the bigger boats are rotting on the island ; Aranmore people have always immigratedto Scotland or the North of England ; a lot of them come back to build a new house or to repair the ancestral home ; they are an incredibly friendly people ; during the famine three hundred of them were evicted by the landlord and deported to Canada ; they left on the 24th of April 1851 and arrived in Quebec on June 5th of the same year ; none of them died in transit ; in the summer of 1856 , most of the settled in Beaver island on lake Michigan ; in March 2003, a hundred inhabitants of Beaver island came back to Aranmore for the first time for the twinning of the two islands - It was very emotional. (Photo by NUTAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)