Book description
The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy.
In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular
region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart
from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as
Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume
Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty
years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement
with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its
folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and
surprising as the place it attempts to describe.
Chosen as a book of the year by Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane and
Colm T ib n
A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in
1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of
Aran. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.
'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Cond Nast Traveller
'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists'
Joseph O'Connor,
Guardian
Many landscape writers have striven to give their prose the
characteristics of the terrain they are describing. Few have succeeded
as fully as Robinson. A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the
Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume
Stones of Aran
. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara.
