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Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom

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Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom

SKU: 9780141049595 Category: Product ID: 127468

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Title: Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom
Author: ROBINSON TIM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/07/2012
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active

‘Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work’ Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times

‘One of contemporary Ireland’s finest literary stylists’ Joseph O’Connor, Guardian

PRAISE FOR LISTENING TO THE WIND

‘Dazzling . . . an indubitable classic’ Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller

‘Wonderful . . . strides between folkore and fauna, mythology and geology, in gorgeous sentences that spin poetry out of ‘troubled times and windy spaces” Boyd Tonkin, Independent

‘A magnificent testimony to a landscape and its people, as well as its ghosts’ Scotsman

PRAISE FOR THE LAST POOL OF DARKNESS

‘[Robinson] is one of the finest of contemporary prose stylists . . . an astonishing and almost infinitely provocative work’ John Burnside, Irish Times

‘Above all he retains a capacious sympathy for all the incomers and outgoers drawn to or expelled from this desolate and cruelly beautiful place . . . The envisaged third volume will complete an edifice as remarkable as any of those surveyed for this book’ Roy Foster, The Times

ISBN: 9780141049595
Pages: 352