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The Aran Islands and Connemara / J. M. Synge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909--Travel--Ireland--Aran Islands.
- Synge, J. M.
- Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909.
- Travel.
- Ireland--Aran Islands.
- Aran Islands (Ireland)--Description and travel.
- Aran Islands (Ireland).
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cork : Mercier Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- J.M. Synge, one of Ireland's greatest dramatists, travelled through a now vanished world in the dying days of the nine-teenth century. In this, his masterpiece of travel writing, he gives us a portrait of a long, forgotten time and shows us that 'one has to go a little way only to reach people and places that are typical of Connemara' and the Aran Islands.
- Synge's narrative invites us into the cottages of the people so that we can relish the warmth of their hearts and the richness of their stories. In his words we hear the call of the wild, and our guides are the fishermen, mountainy men and the people of the bogs.
- Contents:
- The Aran Islands 9
- In Connemara 161
- From Galway to Gorumna 163
- Between the Bays of Carraroe 168
- Among the Relief Works 173
- The Ferryman of Dinnish Island 178
- The Kelp Makers 183
- The Boat Builders 188
- The Homes of the Harvestmen 193
- The Smaller Peasant Proprietors 198
- Erris 203
- The Inner Lands of Mayo 209
- The Village Shop 211
- The Small Town 215
- Possible Remedies 220.
- ISBN:
- 9781856355995
- 1856355993
- OCLC:
- 223857552
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