Produced and directed by Kieran Concannon, it featured interviews with surviving islanders and archive newsreel footage of the final evacuation.

The island was occupied for thousands of years and has many Bronze Age sites such as burial grounds and monuments.

"[4][5][6] The island's patron saint was Leo of Inis Airc, who lived there sometime between the sixth and eighth centuries.

Soon afterwards, during a period when the island was cut off due to bad weather, another young man died from appendicitis.

[8] These incidents as well as emigration were contributing factors driving the clamour to evacuate the island, as by this point there were few young people remaining on it.