The tour continues to the Slea Head Drive, a scenic circle loop of 26 miles/41 km. During this loop, the group will travel through Ventry, Dunquin and Ballyferriter. Here on this west side of Dingle, the Irish language (Gaelic) is spoken in a natural native way and is very much the first language in these parts. As you round the head of the Peninsula, there are magnificent views of the Blasket Islands, spectacular cliffs and idyllic beaches. This area is the edge of Europe, and history is everywhere - Iron Age forts, beehive huts, early-Christian churches, 19th-century cottages and picturesque stone houses set against a patchwork of fields. This most scenic route winds around the coast to Slea Head, where the view of the Blasket Islands stops many visitors in their tracks.

The population of the Great Blasket Island, evacuated in the 1950s, produced several books in Irish, including a bestseller, translated as Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’ Sullivan, and a masterpiece, The Islandman by Thomas O‘ Crohan. The autobiography of the storyteller and resident of the Great Blasket Island, Peig Sayers, was published in 1936. Peig is among the most famous expressions of a late Gaelic Revival genre of personal histories by and about inhabitants of the Blasket Islands and other remote Irish locations. Robert J. Flaherty’s film documentary Man of Aran addresses similar subjects. Peig depicts the declining years of a traditional, Irish-speaking way of life characterised by poverty, devout Catholicism, and folk memory of the Famine and the Penal Laws. In addition, there were some 60 books written in the immediate area during the 20th century, primarily in Irish.