Connemara : A Little Gaelic Kingdom

Informationen zum Autor A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands and commenced a multi-decade project of mapping and writing about Aran and Connemara. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, each published to great acclaim. He died in 2020. Klappentext A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. He is the author of the two-volume Stones of Aran and ofcollections of essays, and maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara. Connemara: Listening to the Wind , published in 2006, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction. Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness followed in 2008. Since 1984 Tim Robinson has lived in Roundstone, Connemara. Zusammenfassung Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born writer.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Robinson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780141049595
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104959-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, European History, Ireland, British & Irish history, Irish Gaelic, Travel and holiday, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works