Which island, cormected to the mainland by the Jubilee Bridge, is the largest of the Furness Islands in the Irish Sea?
Walney Island Walney Island The Isle of Walney, also known as Walney Island, is an island off the west coast of England, at the western end of Morecambe Bay in the Irish Sea. It is part of Barrow-in-Furness, separated from the mainland by Walney Channel, which is spanned by the Jubilee Bridge. Walney is the largest island of the Furness Islands group, both in population and size, as well as the largest English island in the Irish Sea. Its population at the 2011 UK Census was 10,651, distributed evenly across the island's two Wards of Walney North and Walney South. Walney Island
Riders to the Sea M. Synge was encouraged by his friend and colleague William Butler Yeats to visit the Aran Islands. He went on to spend the summers from 1898 to 1903 there. While on the Aran island of Inishmaan, Synge heard the story of a man from Inishmaan whose body washed up on the shore of an island of County Donegal, which inspired "Riders to the Sea". "Riders to the Sea" is written in the Hiberno-English dialect of the Aran Islands. Synge's use of the native Irish language is part of the Irish Literary Revival, a period when Irish literature looked to encourage