An Aran Reader
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ISBN: 1901866289 / Publisher: The Lilliput Press, July 1999
The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. An Aran Reader encompasses folklore, fiction, botany, ethnography and autobiography from a wide variety of writers – from Giraldus Cambrensis to Tim Robinson, James Joyce to Derek Mahon, Liam O’Flaherty to Máirtín Ó Direáin, Lady Gregory to Seamus Heaney.
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The Aran Islands are among the most finely wrought land-masses in the western world. Their antiquity, diversity and cultural richness have made them a source of fascination for writers, romantics, naturalists, linguists, archaeologists, anthropologists and artists, provoking a variety of responses now inscribed upon Ireland’s history and literature. An Aran Reader encompasses folklore, fiction, botany, ethnography and autobiography from a wide variety of writers – from Giraldus Cambrensis to Tim Robinson, James Joyce to Derek Mahon, Liam O’Flaherty to Máirtín Ó Direáin, Lady Gregory to Seamus Heaney.
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