A new video series is providing vivid snapshots of life among a Connemara island community during lockdown.
Filming for Inishbofin in Lockdown was completed last spring — when Inishbofin, off western Connemara, joined the three Aran Islands in agreeing to discourage visitors during the initial pandemic restrictions in Ireland.
Island resident Kieran Concannon of C-Board films worked with the Inishbofin Community Services Programme to develop a film project that would capture a unique record of the island and its people amid a time of great uncertainty.
Galway County Arts Office provided funding for the project, which has resulted in a series of short films that have been posted on YouTube since last week. Watch a sample below: