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A 1967 Mercier Press reprint of one of the best works of natural history and commentary on Ireland's offshore islands. Thomas H Mason was an antiquarian, photographer ethnologist and naturalist - so was an excellent choice for the subject .
Contents as follows - Islands of the East coast; Poteen; Tory Island in Donegal, Island Boats, Inishmurray in Sligo; Achill and Clare Island in Mayo; Inishbofin and the Aran Islands in Galway; Music and marriage on the Aran Islands, Inishere, The Blaskets and Skelligs in Kerry; Saltee Island in Wexford.
Based on the text of the second revised 1938 edition of the classic work.
Contents as follows - Islands of the East coast; Poteen; Tory Island in Donegal, Island Boats, Inishmurray in Sligo; Achill and Clare Island in Mayo; Inishbofin and the Aran Islands in Galway; Music and marriage on the Aran Islands, Inishere, The Blaskets and Skelligs in Kerry; Saltee Island in Wexford.
Based on the text of the second revised 1938 edition of the classic work.
The Islands of Ireland was originally published 1936. Thomas Mason was a member of one of the oldest family businesses in Dublin, and was a publisher and photographer who took a huge number of images which were used as postcards issued by the company. Mason was interested in archaeology, ornithology, historical sites on the islands off Ireland, interests which brought him all over the country with his full-plate camera.
This edition has line drawings by Kor Classen
LIGHT AGE TANNING, A very good copy.
