Parameters
- 126 pages
- 5 hours of reading
More about the book
This portfolio of 160 stunning photographs, drawn from the Aran Islands since the early 1960s, chronicles and records the daily life of the their seasons, harvests and festivities; their schooling, religion and politics; their fishing, folkways and pastimes. Photographic sequences depict events in the Aran year – St Bridget’s Eve (1 February) and St John’s Eve (11 June), the blessing of the currachs, the cead (a form of hurling) – and portraits of the Aran poets, Sean Keating the painter, and the coffin-makers of Inis Meain. These timeless, crystalline images by a master-photographer reconstitute and preserve a unique, largely vanished way of life in the most majestic of settings on Ireland’s western seaboard. An introductory essay, ‘The Light before the Bill Doyle, Photographer’, by broadcaster and documentary film-maker Muirís Mac Conghail, accompanies the photographs.
Book purchase
The Aran Islands, Bill Doyle, Mairin Mac Conghail
- Language
- Released
- 1999
- Binding
- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €11.49
Payment methods
No one has rated yet.
- Title
- The Aran Islands
- Subtitle
- Another World: Introductory Essay by Mairin Mac Conghail
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bill Doyle, Mairin Mac Conghail
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 126
- ISBN10
- 1901866157
- ISBN13
- 9781901866155
- Series
- Categories
- Description
- This portfolio of 160 stunning photographs, drawn from the Aran Islands since the early 1960s, chronicles and records the daily life of the their seasons, harvests and festivities; their schooling, religion and politics; their fishing, folkways and pastimes. Photographic sequences depict events in the Aran year – St Bridget’s Eve (1 February) and St John’s Eve (11 June), the blessing of the currachs, the cead (a form of hurling) – and portraits of the Aran poets, Sean Keating the painter, and the coffin-makers of Inis Meain. These timeless, crystalline images by a master-photographer reconstitute and preserve a unique, largely vanished way of life in the most majestic of settings on Ireland’s western seaboard. An introductory essay, ‘The Light before the Bill Doyle, Photographer’, by broadcaster and documentary film-maker Muirís Mac Conghail, accompanies the photographs.