Blogs in February 2016

Rain on the Wind 3rd February 2016

From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life – the sea, and a young girl so terrible lovely-lookin’ it raised your heart to heaven just to see her smile. But with a hideous birthmark...

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Love and the Goddess 27th April 2014

When cookery teacher Kate Canavan’s perfect life falls apart she moves to Galway City. Kate’s friend James urges her to love and nurture herself, but mischievous Ella persuades her to dust off her unused dating skills. So Kate explores...

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Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom 1st January 1970

This is the final work in Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula (the first two are: Listening to the Wind and The Last Pool of Darkness). Connemara is not just a...

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Connemara: Listening to the Wind (1) 1st January 1970

In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland’s most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume...

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Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness 1st January 1970

The first volume of Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson’s home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a...

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