Sister Irene, Irish hermit

BBC Everyman series incliuded the 1993 documentary about Sister Irene, an Irish Cathoic hermit living in a cottage. The documentary is titled “First Irish Professed Hermit.” (Sister Irene later transferred to or created for herself a Carmelite convent : Carmelites of the Holy Face in Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland ) The documentary is titled “First Irish Professed Hermit.”

URL: complete (60:06) https://youtu.be/p-QbNOg-MVc?si=vPWUKTEP-0WfJhHF;
Shorter version in two parts: URLs part 1 (19:53) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDf6Jm3HaM; and part 2 (13:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJAaUz9YeG8&pp=ygUMYmJjIGV2ZXJ5bWFu ;
Carmekiute foundation URL: https://carmelitesholyface.com/

Dan Hummel, American hermit in Ireland 2

The SCMP or South Chia Morning Post’s Post Magazine offers an update on Dan Hummel, American veteran who quit the USA during the Vietnam War era and moved to Ireland. Title and byline: “The Ivy League-educated Vietnam veteran Dan Hummel has spent most of the past 46 years alone, having left Nixon’s America in 1969 never to return. He’s divided his time between the windswept wilds of Ireland’s Atlantic coast and the mountaintop delights of Dali, in Yunnan province, southwest China.”

URL: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3023860/american-hermit-whose-realm-stretches-china

Dan Hummel, American hermit in Ireland

A lengthy article on the IrishCentral website titled “The American hermit who 50 years ago fled the US for a remote Irish location,” about 78-year old Dan Hummel, who left the United States to become a hermit in West Cork, Ireland, facing the Atlantic Ocean. Hummel is a Vietnam War veteran, who no longer wanted to live in his native country given the politics of the late 1960s. Though a Navy veteran reaching the rank of lieutenant, Hummel opposed the foreign policy and general materialistic culture of the United States. He lived in China and Japan, and eventually ended his travels in Ireland.

URL: https://www.irishcentral.com/travel/moving-to-ireland/dan-hummel-west-cork