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Illustrated with maps, charts, b/w photos throughout, extensive bibliography, index.

Achill Island is a beautiful, unspoiled area off the coast of County Mayo. Linked to the mainland by a swing bridge, it is easily accessible yet remote, and brings visitors back year after year. Achill’s sandy beaches and dramatic cliffs are renowned as some of the most beautiful in Europe, and its people known for their warm hospitality. Achill Voices features a stunning collection of black and white and color images from the author’s own collection, alongside stories that offer a rare glimpse into the lives of the island’s inhabitants.

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Illustrated with maps, charts, b/w photos throughout, extensive bibliography, index.

Achill Island is a beautiful, unspoiled area off the coast of County Mayo. Linked to the mainland by a swing bridge, it is easily accessible yet remote, and brings visitors back year after year. Achill’s sandy beaches and dramatic cliffs are renowned as some of the most beautiful in Europe, and its people known for their warm hospitality. Achill Voices features a stunning collection of black and white and color images from the author’s own collection, alongside stories that offer a rare glimpse into the lives of the island’s inhabitants.

Art historian Nora Barnes and her husband, Toby Sandler, are visiting West Ireland for a family reunion. During a morning walk through a deserted village on Achill Island, Nora stumbles upon a body―her notorious uncle Bert. When a clue singles out her mother as the likely suspect, Nora and Toby are on the case to clear her name. Whether in a barroom brawl or the sauna of a swingers’ club, Toby has Nora’s back. As they search, the dead of Achill seem to speak from graveyards, ruined churches, and megalithic tombs. A second murder makes it all the more difficult to connect the dots. And when Nora and Toby become the next targets, their own survival is at stake.

Canadian Brass.

For Percussion Quartet (4 copies).

In this compelling and lyrical memoir, renowned classical composer, author and political activist Raymond Deane evokes his near idyllic childhood on Achill Island, his adolescence in Dublin, and his rapid descent into alcoholism. In an alternately humorous and horrific narrative moving swiftly from Ireland to Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany and France, Deane shows us how a lovingly protected childhood is no bulwark against disaster. While this is no ""misery memoir"", Deane does show how memory can seize upon and exaggerate painful experiences to provide a convenient but spurious explanation for irrational behavior. Throughout his story creative achievements and self-destructive frenzies succeed one another and sometimes coincide. Love is found and lost, and found and lost again. At last his recovery begins at the age of thirty-five when even those closest to him have given up hope. In the end, his book is, in his own words, ""a talisman against fatalism"". Written in three parts which are as strongly contrasted in style and tone as the movements of a symphony, In My Own Light provides a harrowing and honest look at one man's battle with self-destruction.

Paul Henry is one of the best known Irish landscape painters. In this autobiography he writes of his experience in Connemara and Mayo and on Achill Island and of the tremendous influence which his years in the West had on his work as an artist. The author also writes of his life and his friends, many of them famous, in Paris and in London where his early years were passed, but it is the chapters dealing with the West of Ireland which dominate the book, just as the influence of the West was to dominate his art.

From the Nephin Beg range to Achill and the Céide Fields, this study travels through the gentle and rich landscape of Mayo. Author Michael Mullen shares his wide-ranging knowledge of the county in order to give travelers an understanding of Mayo’s rich history and varied landscapes while he guides them along its roads and through its historical and literary heritage. A driving guide, potted history, and miscellany, this is an invaluable companion for anyone wishing to explore the better and lesser-known attractions of the county and includes a beautiful selection of color photographs.

In this compelling and lyrical memoir, renowned classical composer, author and political activist Raymond Deane evokes his near idyllic childhood on Achill Island, his adolescence in Dublin, and his rapid descent into alcoholism. In an alternately humorous and horrific narrative moving swiftly from Ireland to Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany and France, Deane shows us how a lovingly protected childhood is no bulwark against disaster. While this is no ""misery memoir"", Deane does show how memory can seize upon and exaggerate painful experiences to provide a convenient but spurious explanation for irrational behavior. Throughout his story creative achievements and self-destructive frenzies succeed one another and sometimes coincide. Love is found and lost, and found and lost again. At last his recovery begins at the age of thirty-five when even those closest to him have given up hope. In the end, his book is, in his own words, ""a talisman against fatalism"". Written in three parts which are as strongly contrasted in style and tone as the movements of a symphony, In My Own Light provides a harrowing and honest look at one man's battle with self-destruction.