Where a Wave Meets the Shore

It's 1952, and change is coming quickly to a rugged island off the west coast of Ireland.

It's coming even faster to the two young people about to meet there.

On the Great Blasket Island, with most of its inhabitants lost to emigration and those who remain growing elderly, the members of a close-knit community are preparing to quietly surrender what a century of Atlantic storms could not rip from their grasp.

Residents in the coastal towns along the Dingle Peninsula view the island as little...