Book Description
Watercolors and anecdotes from the Irish Burren, celebrating the flora, fauna, and people of the region. In full color.
Author : Gordon D'Arcy
Publisher : Collins Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848892682
Watercolors and anecdotes from the Irish Burren, celebrating the flora, fauna, and people of the region. In full color.
Author : Tony Kirby
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 2009-03-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 184889919X
A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions and additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment and appreciation of the place. Each route, prefaced with a quick-reference summary, is illustrated with a clear sketch map.
Author : Paul Clements
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2011-05-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1848899394
For 20 years Paul Clements has been tapping into the Burren's hidden crevices, drawn to its history, mystery and peculiarities. He writes absorbingly about the rocks, hills and walls, and the range of colours, the animals he rubs shoulders with, and about subjects which excite him, such as the exotic wild flowers, ancient ruins, early morning birdsong, and the smell of whiskey in historic pubs. A hunter and gatherer of information and lore on the Burren, the author ferrets out little-known facts and weaves them together to create these carefully distilled essays.
Author : Carleton Shepherd Jones
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while "panel" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb. Contents include Colonization and Early Settlement, From Neolithic to Bronze Age. The Celts, The Arrival of Christianity, Early Medieval Chiefs and their Stone Forts, and finally Later Tower Houses and Military Constructions. In this heavily illustrated book, captions are often extensive and can be read separately or with the text. Overall it can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into. Dr. Jones' writing transforms the dry academic material of excavation reports and archaeological inventories into an engaging and understandable story. He is also the author of "Wild Plants of the Burren & Aran Islands which is available from Dufour.
Author : Jackie Queally
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780993051289
This full colour guide to the Burren presents a series of itineraries for cyclists or car users to explore the hidden as well as the better known sites in the International Geopark and surrounds of this stunning limestone region in Counties Clare and Galway, Ireland. Includes good directions, maps, GPS, mileage, photos and informative text. Written by local prolific author and guide Jackie Queally, who also is a biofield tuner (sound healing). Quirky and fun to read, it will whet your appetite to explore this beautiiful nature-laden area at your leisure.
Author : Cora Harrison
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178010135X
The enthralling new Burren mystery . . . April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning, one of them is found dead on a lone mountain pass with suspicious wounds. He was carrying an important legal document that has now disappeared. But why did he choose to deliver it during the night, and what of the two other missing students? Mara must uncover the truth, and it at first seems that the stolen deed holds all the answers . . .
Author : Thomas Johnson Westropp
Publisher : Clasp Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This work contains a complete record of the prehistoric monuments of northern Clare which were surveyed, described and illustrated by Thomas J. Westropp between 1896 and 1916. It details the archaeological remains of the Burren and its borders, with emphasis on the forts and dolmens of the area. Also included are cairns, cists, huts and souterrains, with further information on place-names, history and folklore.
Author : Cate Burren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781858945910
Offers advice for interior decoration projects, discussing the importance of finding a style, planning a layout, using color, creating a scheme, and managing a project, with plans and photographs to illustrate design ideas.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1426206364
Vols. for 2004- by Christopher Somerville.
Author : Margaret Greenwood
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781843530596
Including detailed guidance to exploring the countryside and historic sites, this fully revised guide offers a complete picture of the beautiful island of Ireland, north and south. of color photos.