Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom

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'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.' John Banville, Guardian 'Will endure into the far future . . . He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, and artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility.' Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of the Year 'Robinson is a marvel . . . the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places.' Fintan O'Toole, Observer Books of the Year 'Breathtaking . . . the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate.' Patricia Craig, TLS 'Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles.' Brain Dillon, New Statesman 'he is the nearest thing we have to a living legend, this side of Famous Seamus - one of the few people from our world whose name will still be known a century on.' Manchan Magan, Irish Times

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.

A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past ... This perfectly pitched work opens readers up to the world around them * Sunday Times * Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places -- Fintan O'Toole * Observer (Books of the Year) * He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights. -- John Banville * Guardian * Remarkable * The Times * He is the nearest thing we have to a living legend, this side of Famous Seamus - one of the few people from our world whose name will still be known a century on * Irish Times * Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles * New Statesman * Will endure into the far future ... He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility -- Colm Toibin * Sunday Business Post (Books of the Year) * An extraordinary monument * Irish Independent * Anyone willing to get lost in this book will be left with many indelible mental images of places they may never have visited but will now never forget -- Dermot Bolger * Irish Mail on Sunday * Captivating * Independent * Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate -- Patricia Craig * TLS *