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Robert L Harris

Robert L Harris, the warden of Skellig Michael, is an American who has lived on the largest of the Skellig islands every summer for 34 years. His memoir, Returning Light, recounts life on the wild and remote island. Skellig Michael is famous for an ancient monastic settlement of stone beehive huts, iconic jagged peaks, colonies of sea birds and, most recently, for being a location for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Harris has lived all over the world prior to coming to Ireland. He was born in Peru and lived as a child in Bermuda. He moved to Leitrim in 1987 with his Kerry-born wife, Maigread, an artist whom he met as student in Edinburgh. While visiting his mother-in-law in Killarney he saw a job advertized in the Kerryman newspaper for a “guide and information officer” on Skellig Michael. Having previously visited the island with his wife and loved it, he decided to apply.

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