Connemara
  • Published: 10 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141032696
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00
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Connemara

A Little Gaelic Kingdom

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31 Oct 2011
EBook
25 Sep 2008
EBook
20 Aug 2007
Paperback
10 Jul 2009
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19 Jun 2007
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The second instalment in Tim Robinson's astonishing Connemara trilogy

The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic.
  • Published: 10 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141032696
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

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Praise for Connemara

An astonishing and almost infinitely provocative work ... it is a rare pleasure to be among those engaged in the salvage of so rich a treasure

John Burnside, Irish Times

One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English

Robert Macfarlane, Spectator

A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places

Colm Tóibín, Irish Times Books of the Year

Reading Tim Robinson on Connemara is almost as good as being there - better in some ways

Irish Examiner

An imperishable monument to the West

Irish Independent