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-- Tim Robinson was a cartographer, artist, and writer whose scrupulous and lovingly-detailed records of the West of Ireland, its landscape, its people, and its distinctive languages were lauded, hugely influential, and are revered in Irish studies. These publications include Pilgrimage (1986) which won the Irish Book Awards literature medal, and what is referred to as his "Connemara Trilogy," a prize-winning trio of books which studies the link between place and people in the West of Ireland. Robinson died in 2020 from COVID. Liam Mac Con Iomaire was a writer and broadcaster who served as Director of the Modern Irish Language Laboratory at University College Dublin. His previous publications inlcude Ireland of the Proverb (Townhouse, 1988). He is particularly well-regarded by those who work in the Irish language. He died unexpectedly in May 2019. In their previous collaboration, the translators earned the MLA's Louis Roth Award for Cré na Cille / Graveyard Clay (Yale UP 2016). -- There are some books which are of enduring cultural, critical, and historical importance to their field, and this is one. After centuries of colonization and concerted efforts to eradicate Irish language, folklife, and culture from Ireland, the importance of artifacts such as this work cannot be overstated. It is of critical academic and general interest. -- As a new series, Irish Culture, Memory, Place has included the work of one rising Irish star, the innovative collaborative work of two established and highly-regarded American academics, and an edited volume which speaks both to the memorialization of Irish history as well as to the issues facing women in the current moment. What we are lacking as we establish ourselves is an engagement with the Irish language. With the publication of this title, the final work of two luminaries in the field, we will secure a
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- Acknowledgments -- Nomenclature -- Reading This Volume -- Prologue: Space, Time & -- Connemara -- Conamara Chronicles: An Introductory Note -- 1. The Holy Men and the Islands -- 2. Troubled Times -- 3. The Year of the French (1798) -- 4. The Tories/Vigilantes -- 5. Big Men -- 6. Robbers and Treasures -- 7. Smugglers -- 8. Poor Scholars -- 9. Priests -- 10. People and Places -- 11. Boatmen and Timber -- 12. Food -- 13. Wisps of Straw -- 14. Custodians of Traditional Lore and Storytellers -- Meet the Storytellers -- Bibliography -- Maps -- Author Biographies -- Placename Index.
