The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara" Trilogy. In its landscape history & folklore Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically & yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Irel&. Tim Robinson who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume " Stones of Aran" moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains bogs & shorelines of the region & with its folklore & its often terrible history: a work as beautiful & surprising as the place it attempts to describe. Chosen as a book of the year by Iain Sinclair Robert Macfarlane & Colm Toibin. A native of Yorkshire Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume " Stones of Aran". Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone Connemara. " Dazzling...an indubitable classic". (Giles Foden " Conde Nast Traveller"). " One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists". (Joseph O' Connor " Guardian")."