Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara

  BOTANY – A ROUNDSTONE VIEW

  Concocted to amuse the Botanical Society of the British Isles when I persuaded them to hold their 1994 AGM in Roundstone. Published in Irish Botanical News (No. 5, February 1995).

  THROUGH PREHISTORIC EYES

  The keynote address to the sixtieth anniversary conference of the Prehistoric Society, held in University College, Dublin, in September 1995.

  TAKING STEPS

  A retrospect, conceived as a ‘Letter from Ireland’ and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996.

  About the Author

  Tim Robinson, born to Scots-Yorkshire parents in England in 1935, studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked as a teacher and artist in Vienna and London. In 1972 he moved to the West of Ireland (the Aran Islands and Roundstone, Connemara) to begin his career as map-maker and writer. His magisterial two-volume Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (1986), and Labyrinth (1995), Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara (1996), My Time in Space (2001) and Tales and Imaginings (2002) were each published by The Lilliput Press. A subsequent work, Connemara: Listening to the Wind (2006), is the first of a three-volume study.

  Copyright

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  First published 1997 by

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  This digital edition published 2012 by

  The Lilliput Press

  Copyright © Tim Robinson, 2012

  ISBN print paperback 978 18 746 75747

  ISBN eBook 978 18 435 12820

  A CIP record for this title is available from The British Library.

  The Lilliput Press receives financial assistance from

  An Chomhairle Ealaion / The Arts Council of Ireland