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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.
“Should stand on the shelf beside Synge’s Aran Islands and Thoreau’s Walden.” —The Irish Times “Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic.” —Condé Nast Traveller “One of contemporary Ireland’s finest literary stylists . . . this book does justice, in every sense of the phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world.” —The Guardian (London)
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