Stones of Aran : pilgrimage /: pilgrimage. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Robinson.
• Other Names: Robinson, Tim, 1935-2020
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TIMESCAPE WITH SIGNPOST; I. SOUTH; BEFORE BEGINNING; THE ARCHITECTURE OF DESTRUCTION; CONNOISSEURS OF WILDERNESS; THIS VALE OF TEARS; OCEAN WALLS AND WINDOWS; LITTLE SEÁN'S BOULDER AND OTHER STONES; LITTLE SEÁN'S BOULDER AND OTHER STONES; PROSPECTIVE; A CLASS DIVISION; SEA-MARKS; SIGNATURES; NINE FATHOMS; DÚCHATHAIR; STYLES OF FLIGHT; WRACK; ARGUMENTS FROM WEAKNESS; THE CLIFFMAN'S KINGDOM; A MARINE CATHEDRAL; SEATS ON THE CLIFFTOP; BRACHIOPODS AND BULLETS; HARBOUR WITHOUT BOATS; THE WORM AND THE ROOT. Dún aonghasa: the direct approachdún aonghasa: a legendary perspective; posthumous career of the fir bolg; dún aonghasa: a closer look; perdition's edge; tides of the other world; life on the brink; divisions of the land; an "agrarian outrage"; fear of falling, fear of failing; looking back; ii. excursion; iii. north; premonitions; leviathan; a difficult mile; the seaweed gatherers; on the shores of the past; shore divisions; blackweed and redweed; women's work; poets on the shore; fortune and misfortune; the kelp age; smoke and ash; afterimages, afterthoughts; man of aran. History of a strangerfishermen of cill mhuirbhigh; writing on the beach; the luck of the shore; the irish iodine & marine salts mfg. co. ltd.; the fingerprint; sailing on a stone; looking into other lives; differences between limestone and granite; yet two more bays; the drowned woman; the feast of saints peter and paul; the minister's sand; the generations; destruction and reconstruction; point of arrival; the bay of doubt; the field of the cloak; cill éinne: the village; aircín: the castle; aircín: the pawn; cromwell's walls; aer árann; bones in the sand; sands in the wind; straw island. THE STEPEASY GOING; UPON THIS ROCK; SOURCES; Maps; INDEX; About the Author; By the Same Author; Copyright.
• Publisher Details: Dublin : Lilliput Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 914.174804824 941.7/48 941.748; Walking -- Ireland -- Aran Islands; HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain; TRAVEL -- Europe -- General; Travel; Walking; Aran Islands (Ireland) -- Description and travel; Ireland -- Aran Islands; Electronic books; Travel -- Ireland -- Aran Islands
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781843512851; 1843512858
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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