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What do you associate with Tory Island?
The Tau Cross
An Club
Patsy Dan Rodgers
Báidín Fheilimí
The sinking of HMS Audacious
Vampires
Himself who's house got 'disappeared'
Derek Hill
Tories
Balor
Corn crakes
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There’s one last king left in Ireland: his name is Patsy Dan Rodgers and he is the King of Toraigh Island nine miles off the Donegal coast.
“Toraigh Island is three miles long and quarter of a mile wide and its main language is still Irish. All the signs are in Ireland’s ancient tongue and school kids do all their subjects, bar English, through the Irish language.
“The Kingship of Toraigh is no modern creation. There was a King of Toraigh hundreds of years before Queen Elizabeth’s ancestors fought their way onto the Throne of England. Indeed, the position was created in the 6th century by a visiting saint to give the islanders a unifying figure to rally around when pirates attacked.
“The pirates are long gone, but as a young man King Patsy Dan was tasked with fighting off an attack that similarly threatened to extinguish island life once and for all: in 1974, the Irish Government decided to relocate the islanders to the mainland after they were cut off for two months by a fearsome storm.
“Patsy Dan and his fellow islanders resisted the plan at every stage and eventually the Government relented. Forty years on Toraigh Island is still inhabited thanks to their efforts.“