Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Robinson, Tim

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ISBN 10: 0141032693 ISBN 13: 9780141032696

Published by Penguin, Ireland, 2009

Language: English

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Title

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

Publisher

Penguin, Ireland

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

0141032693

ISBN 13

9780141032696

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

2nd Edition

Condition

New

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One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. 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 'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Cond� Nast Traveller 'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian

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Tim Robinson was born in England in 1935, studied mathematics at Cambridge and taught the subject in Turkey. He then worked as a visual artist under the name of Timothy Drever, first in Vienna and later in London, where there were several exhibitions of his abstract paintings and environmental installations in the 1960s. In 1972 he went to live in the Aran Islands, and began writing and making maps. He now lives in Roundstone, Connemara, where he and his wife run the Folding Landscapes studio, which publihses his maps and related writings on the west of Ireland. His detailed study of the Aran Islands, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, is published by Penguin.

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