Bob Quinn, writer, photographer, film-maker and television director, is a member of Aosdana and has lived in Connemara in the west of Ireland since 1970. He is author of Sit Down and Be Counted (1969); Smokey Hollow (1991), a fictional memoir; An Tir Aneol (1995), a photographic record of Connemara; and Maverick (2001), a critique of modern broadcasting.