The Aran Islands

Author : John Millington Synge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aran Islands written by John Millington Synge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's prospectus for the limited edition (150 copies), large paper edition of Synge's work. The only book published by Maunsel to include hand-colouring of an artist's work.

Author : The Curriculum Development Unit
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847179398
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aran Islands written by The Curriculum Development Unit and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inishmore, Inishmaan, Inisheer: wild, isolated, starkly beautiful and of great historical importance. Lying in the Atlantic Ocean off Galway Bay, the Aran Islands are a place apart. Here island life has preserved many aspects of Irish culture - its language, customs and traditions. These islands bear witness to events from earliest times and have experienced Celtic occupation, the arrival of Christianity, invasions, sieges, famine and evictions. This history is evident in the massive Iron Age forts, the Early Christian ruins, and in the literature, songs and images from these 'three stepping stones out of Europe'. A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated introduction to and lasting memento of these unique islands.

Author : Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299332403
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting Music in the Aran Islands written by Deirdre Ní Chonghaile and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Music in the Aran Islands, a critical historiographical study of the practice of documenting traditional music, is the first to focus on the archipelago off the west coast of Ireland. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile argues for a framework to fully contextualize and understand this process of music curation.

Author : Tony Kirby
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184889919X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burren & Aran Islands written by Tony Kirby and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions and additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment and appreciation of the place. Each route, prefaced with a quick-reference summary, is illustrated with a clear sketch map.

Author : Bill Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aran Islands written by Bill Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This portfolio of photographs, selected from Bill Doyle's body of work from the Aran Islands, spanning four decades, records both the timeless landscape of the islands and the islanders themselves: their schooling, worship, fishing, sport, crafts and folkways. Photographic sequences depict events in the Aran year--St Bridget's Eve, St John's Eve, the blessing of the currachs--as well as historic moments like the arrival of Galway's Druid Theatre company to perform Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Through Doyle's lens we also witness the ceremonial process of death on Aran: the coffin-maker in his workshop, the coffin being transported by bicycle, and the mourners making their way to the grave. In his faces we see three generations, their stories and way of life still vivid and real.--From publisher description.

Author : Carleton Shepherd Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burren and the Aran Islands written by Carleton Shepherd Jones and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while "panel" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb. Contents include Colonization and Early Settlement, From Neolithic to Bronze Age. The Celts, The Arrival of Christianity, Early Medieval Chiefs and their Stone Forts, and finally Later Tower Houses and Military Constructions. In this heavily illustrated book, captions are often extensive and can be read separately or with the text. Overall it can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into. Dr. Jones' writing transforms the dry academic material of excavation reports and archaeological inventories into an engaging and understandable story. He is also the author of "Wild Plants of the Burren & Aran Islands which is available from Dufour.

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590172779
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage written by Tim Robinson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. After a visit with his wife in 1972, Tim Robinson moved to the islands, where he started making maps and gathering stories, eventually developing the idea for a cosmic history of Árainn, the largest of the three islands. Pilgrimage is the first of two volumes that make up Stones of Aran, in which Robinson maps the length and breadth of Árainn. Here he circles the entire island, following a clockwise, sunwise path in quest of the “good step,” in which walking itself becomes a form of attention and contemplation. Like Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia, Stones of Aran is not only a meticulous and mesmerizing study of place but an entrancing and altogether unclassifiable work of literature. Robinson explores Aran in both its elemental and mythical dimensions, taking us deep into the island’s folklore, wildlife, names, habitations, and natural and human histories. Bringing to life the ongoing, forever unpredictable encounter between one man and a given landscape, Stones of Aran discovers worlds. Robinson’s voyage continues in Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Author : Martin McDonagh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472539230
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cripple Of Inishmaan written by Martin McDonagh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic) In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples thorugh his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order. With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh fulfills the promise of his award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.

Author : Sarah Tolmie
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250769833
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Island written by Sarah Tolmie and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story of life and death on the hidden Irish island of Inis Caillte. Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island peopled by the lost, findable only in moments of despair. Whether drowned at sea, trampled by Cromwell's soldiers, or exiled for clinging to the dead, no outsiders reach the island without giving in to dark emotion. Time and again, The Fourth Island weaves a hypnotic pattern with its prose, presaging doom before walking back through the sweet and sour moments of lives not yet lost. It beautifully melds the certainty of loss with the joys of living, drawing readers under like the tide. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Andrew McNeillie
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299176006
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Aran Keening written by Andrew McNeillie and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegy and adventure, an invention, a remembering: so Welsh native poet McNeillie characterizes his account of his time on the Irish island of Inishmore in the late 1960s. A postscript describes a return visit in 2000. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR