https://www.meainofaran.ie Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:56:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.meainofaran.ie/wp-content/uploads/cropped-name-only-blue-32x32.png https://www.meainofaran.ie 32 32 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/walls-of-aran/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/walls-of-aran/ Sean Scully is one of today’s best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting. This book brings together for the first time his photographs of the dry stone walls found on the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland.

]]> https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/the-edge-of-light/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/the-edge-of-light/ With an introduction by poet Theo Dorgan and three of Seamus Heaney’s Aran poems. An evoking collection of photographs in black and white from the three Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland.

]]> https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/aran-currach/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/aran-currach/ The Aran Currach photographs in this book are of an old working boat that Liam Blake came upon while cycling around the Aran Islands. The process of weathering by sun, wind and salt spray were slowly breaking down the skin, revealing it’s skeleton through the giant carapace as it lay on the rock of Inis Oirr.

]]> https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/the-aran-island-another-world/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/the-aran-island-another-world/ This portfolio of 160 stunning photographs, drawn from the Aran Islands since the early 1960s, chronicles and records the daily life of the islanders: their seasons, harvests and festivities; their schooling, religion and politics; their fishing, folkways and pastimes.
The late BILL DOYLE, a Dubliner, was one of Ireland’s leading documentary and artistic photographers; he won international awards for his work in Japan, Germany, the UK and the USA. His other books include The Aran Islands: Another World(Lilliput) and Island Funeral (Veritas).

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