An Aran Keening

'McNeillie's prose can be as pristine and effervescent as the sea's edge on a summer beach. Sometimes it is loaded with biblical and Shakespearean fragments like Aran's winter tides glinting with torn bits of seaweed. So there is...

Errislannan: Scenes from a Painter's Life

'A delightful book, full of beauty and emotion ... wonderful reading.'
- Gemma Hussey, Irish Independent

'A splendid book.' - In Time's Eye, The Irish Times

Errislannan, or Flannan's peninsula, juts out...

Humanity Dick Martin 'King of Connemara' 1754-1834

This finely detailed and amply illustrated biography recreates the life and times of one of Ireland's earliest environmentalists, founder of the world movement for the protection of animals. A loveable Galwayman, Volunteer colonel, landlord-eccent...

Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger

In May 1844, the American educator and reformer Asenath Nicholson set out from New York on a fifteen-month visit to Ireland, determined to 'investigate the condition of the Irish poor'. Nicholson travelled on foot through much of the island, reading the Bi...

J.M. Synge, Travelling Ireland: Essays 1898-1908

Synge's topographical essays appear here in their original newspaper and periodical publication form, taken from the Manchester Guardian, The Gael and The Shanachie, complete with illustrations, mostly by Jack B. Yeats. A substantial essay-introdu...

Nature Guide to the Aran Islands

This consummate description of the wildlife of the Aran Islands - its flora, fauna, geology and climate - is by an expert intimately familiar with the landscape. The outcome of lifelong study and observation, it condenses key facts from the writings on Ara...

Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Like J.M. Synge almost a century before him, Tim Robinson portrays the inner and outer life of a landscape and its inhabitants. Encyclopedia of myth and reality, herbal, love-letter, missal, jest-book, anthology of cultural responses - Stones of Aran ...

The Aran Islands - Another World

This portfolio of 160 stunning photographs, drawn from the Aran Islands since the early 1960s, chronicles and records the daily life of the islanders: their seasons, harvests and festivities; their schooling, religion and politics; their fishing, folk...