{"product_id":"bill-doyle-the-aran-islands-1999-hardback","title":"Bill Doyle: The Aran Islands [1999] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. Photographic sequences depict events in the Aran year - St Bridget's Eve (1 February) and St John's Eve (11 June), the blessing of the currachs, the cead (a form of hurling) - and portraits of the Aran poets, Sean Keating the painter, and the coffin-makers of Inis Meain. These timeless, crystalline images by a master-photographer reconstitute and preserve a unique, largely vanished way of life in the most majestic of settings on Ireland's western seaboard. An introductory essay, 'The Light before the Object: Bill Doyle, Photographer', by broadcaster and documentary film-maker Muiris Mac Conghail, accompanies the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doyle, Bill","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":52146886934867,"sku":"XG81901866155","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":52146886967635,"sku":"9781901866155","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/doyle-bill-bill-doyle-the-aran-islands-1999-hardback-1198465527.jpg?v=1760814211","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/bill-doyle-the-aran-islands-1999-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}