Sometimes a record manages to make its way through time.
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In the mid-1920s, an American visited Dingle to study birds and collect specimens. Sometimes Mr. Ó Mainnín’s grandfather would bring the man — his name was Benjamin Gault, though the locals called him “Kaerty” — in his fishing boat to the nearby Blasket Islands. Kaerty always had a hand-cranked camera with him. One day, as he was filming Mr. Ó Mainnín’s grandfather and his friends, the grandfather stuck a pipe in his dog’s mouth as a joke.
“It was a very far-out story,” Mr. Ó Mainnín, 55, a farmer and fisherman in Dingle, said. “You would never think that it was true.”
Long after Mr. Ó Mainnín’s grandfather, also named Mícheál Ó Mainnín, died in 1981, the family wondered whether any of the film shot by the visiting American still existed.
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