Be like John Lennon and buy an Irish island, with bidding starting at €299,000
The article discusses the history of Dorinish Island, once owned by John Lennon, and highlights current opportunities to purchase private Irish islands. It provides a lifestyle-focused look at the realities and amenities of island living in Ireland.
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When you attract screaming fans everywhere you go, what do you do to get some peace and quiet? You buy an island, of course. That’s what John Lennon did in 1967, buying Dorinish Island, which later became known as Beatle Island, in Clew Bay, Co Mayo .
However, it turned out not to be practical for one of the biggest rock stars in the world to commute to gigs and recording sessions from an island off the west coast of Ireland, so he offered the island rent free to a man named Sam Rawle, whom the media dubbed “King of the Hippies”.
Rawle set about establishing a self-sufficient community on the island, much to the bemusement of the locals on the mainland, which eventually disbanded in 1972.
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