"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" may be an intergalactic adventure, but many of its filming locations are very real and hoping to attract fans as visitors – In particular, one Irish island where the ...

Samuel Beckett would find the absurd in it and Charles J Haughey would turn in his grave. That's the view of several Kerry-based artists concerned about the Government's metaphorical red carpet for ...

Tourism Ireland have already predicted that the appearance of beautiful Skellig Michael in the latest "Star Wars" film will attract a whole new set of travelers to the monastic site and now they’ve ...

Phoenix Pictures has acquired the rights to the award-winning British young adult novel “Skellig” by David Almond and attached Annabel Jankel to helm and produce it. A pioneer of the project, helmer ...

The monastic site on Skellig Michael was one of the wonders of early Christian Ireland The twin islands of Skellig Michael and Little Skellig float on the Atlantic twelve kilometres off the coast of ...

The people behind the next Star Wars film have been accused of going to "the dark side" by filming on the stunning island of Skellig Michael. Part of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is being shot on the ...

A two-mile exclusion zone has been declared around Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast during the filming of a new Star Wars film on the island. The zone, which is being patrolled by a naval vessel, ...

A senior University College Cork archaeology lecturer has criticised Government's "sidelining" of State agencies responsible for the Unesco world heritage site at Skellig Michael over permission for ...

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The force was strong on Skellig Michael yesterday as the navy set up an exclusion zone to prevent anyone from sneaking a peek as the Star Wars team rolled into town. The traditional fishing village of ...