Books about Irish Islands

General
Antiquarian Handbook No. VI (Published by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - 1905) The Islands of Ireland, T.H. Mason (Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd - 1936) The Islands of Ireland, Kenneth McNally (Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd - 1978) Discover the Islands of Ireland - Alex Ritsema (Published by Collins Press, Cork - June 1999) See also Alex Ritsema's website on Islands. Islands of Ireland, McCormick, Donald (Published by Osprey - 1974) Ireland's Islands Text - Peter Somerville Large, Photos - David Lyons (Published by Gill & McMillan - November 1999) Oileáin - David Walsh Published by Pesda Press - June 2004 The Islands of Ireland Nutan (Published by Thames and Hudson - 2005) Other Islands and Authors (Published by Mercier Press 1983) Ireland - A Natural History - Chapter 10 - Michael Viney (Published by The Blackstaff Press - 2003) Ireland - A Natural History - Chapter 10 David Cabot (Published by Harper Collins - 1999)
Around Ireland in a Sea Kayak
On Celtic Tides, Chris Duff (Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999)	Dances with Waves - Brian Wilson ( Published by O'Brien Press - 1998)
Walking
Walks of Seven West Cork Islands - Damien Enright Published by Merlin Press - 2005
Specific Islands
Achill Island - Archaeology, History, Folklore Theresa McDonald IAS Publications - 1997 Achill - Kenneth McNally David and Charles - 1973 Some books on Aran Stones of Aran: Labyrinth - Tim Robinson Penguin (1997) - first published 1995 Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage - Tim Robinson Penguin - 1987 The Book of Aran - Tír Eolas - 1994 The Aran Islands - Daphne Pochin Mould David and Charles - 1972 The Aran Islands and Galway City Breandán Ó Riordáin Dublin: Mount Salus (c1960) An Aran Keening - Andrew McNeillie Lilliput Press - 2001 The Aran Islands - J. M. Synge First published 1907 Oxford University Press - 1990 Inis Meain Images: Ten Days in August 1912 Watson, Henry Cecil Dublin: Wolfhound, 1999 Bere Island - Ted O'Sullivan Inniscraggy Books Blaskets - People and Literature, Muiris McConghail 1987 - Country House Blasket Islands - Next Parish America - Joan and Ray Stagles O'Brien Press An t-Oileánach - Tomás Ó Criomhthain Listing of books and articles on the Blaskets Aistí Ó Chléire - Donnchadh Ó Drisceoil An Clóchomhar Tta Seanchas Chléire - Conchúr Ó'Síocháin Oifig an tSoláthar - 1940 translated as The Man from Cape Clear - trs Riobárd P. Breathnach Mercier Press - 1975 Cape Clear Island: Its People and Landscape - Éamon Lankford. Cape Clear Museum - 1999 Cape Clear Island Magic - Chuck Kruger Collins Press - 1994 The Natural History Of Cape Clear Island Edited by J.T.R.Sharrock. Illustrated by Robert Gilmore Republished 2000 - Comharchumann Chléire Teo New Survey of Clare Island Volume 1: History and Cultural Landscape - 1999 Volume 2: Geology - 2001 Volume 3: Marine intertidal ecology - 2002 Published by the Royal Irish Academy See also Granuaile - Anne Chambers The Life and Times of Grace O'Malley The Wolfhound Press - 1979 Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara & Other Writings - Tim Robinson The Shores of Connemara - Séamus Mac an Iomaire Tír Eolas - 2000 Discover Dursey - Penelope Durell Ballinacarriga Books - 1996 Gweedore Proud Island - Peadar O'Donnell (fiction) O'Brien Press - 1975 Gola, the life and last days of an island community by FH Aalen and H Brody The Mercier Press, Cork - 1969 Heir Island - It's history and People - Eugene Daly Heron's Way Press - 2004 High Island - An Irish Monastery in the Atlantic Jenny White Marshall and Grellan D. Rourke Published by Town House - 2001	Inishbofin - A guide to the natural history and archaeology David Hogan and Michael Gibbons - 1992 Inishbofin Through Time and Tide, ed.Kieran Concannon Inishbofin Development Association - 1993 Inishbofin - James Morrissey Crannóg Books - 1987 Inishfree Upper, Co. Donegal - Margaret Duffy - 2004 Mayo's Lost Islands - The Inishkeas - Brian Dornan Four Courts Press - 2000 Within the Mullet - Rita Nolan - 1998 (Chapter on Inishkeas, Inishglora and Duvillaunmore) Inishmurray and Inishkea North Islands of Storm - James Charles Roy Dufour Editions - 1991 Inishmurray - Ancient Monastic Island : Patrick Heraughty O'Brien Press - 1998 Rathlin, Its Island Story - Wallace Clark Rathlin Island as I Knew It - Alex Morrison Sea Wrack or Long Ago Stories of Rathlin Island - Mary Campbell J. S. Scarlett & Sons, Ballycastle, - 1951 A Pinch of Saltee - Henry Grattan Bellew Justin Nelson Productions - 2003 Saltees; Islands of Birds and Legends Richard Roche & Oscar Merne -O'Brien Press 1977 Sherkin Island - a time and place - Terry Farnell ISBN 0953343901 The Wild Plants of Sherkin, Cape Clear and Adjacent Islands of West Cork -John Akeroyd (editor) Published by Sherkin Island Marine Station Sherkin Island - Dolly O'Reilly The Skellig Story Des Lavelle -The O'Brien Press The Forgotten Hermitage of Skellig Michael Horn, Marshall, Rourke Univesity of California Press - 1990 Sun Dancing - Geoffrey Moorhouse Weidenfeld and Nicolson - 1997 On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean - Lillis Ó Laoire Cló Iar-Chonnachta Toraigh na dTonn - Eoghan Ó Colm Cló Iar-Chonnachta - ISBN: 1 874700 58 3 Stories from Tory Island Dorothy Harrison-Therman Published by Country House - 1989 Islanders: The True Story of One Man's Fight to Save a Way of Life, by Diarmuid Peicin with Liam Nolan - Harper Collins -1997 Tory Island Images by Martine Franck Wolfhound Press The Book of Inishtrahull - Seán Beattie Foyle Press - 1992, Reprinted 1997 Valentia - A different Irish Island Nellie Ó'Cléirigh Portobello Press - 1992 Valentia - Daphne Pochin Mould Blackwater Press Man & the environment in Valentia Island - Frank Mitchell Royal Irish Academy Inis Beag - John C. Messenger - 1969 Waveland Press, Inc - reissued 1983 Seven Year Island - Jerome Kiely Geoffrey Chapman - 1969 The Island of the White Cow - Deborah Tall Andre Deutsch - 1986
Articles/Journals
Journals of the Westport Historical Society Vol. 9. No. 1, 1989 - ISSN 0332-4117 The Rocks of the Mayo Islands by Adrian Phillips The Natural History of our Western Islands by Tony Whilde Cathair na Naomh and its Cross-slabs by Michael Herity Military History of the Western Islands by Sheila Mulloy Settlement, Population and Economy of the Western Islands by Stephen A. Royle Vol. 10. No. 1, 1990 - ISSN 0332-4117 Inishbiggle - The Edge of Ireland by Donna Ohl Allen The Outer Islands of Clew Bay: A Study (Island More, Knockycahillaun, Rabbit Island and Quinsheen Island), (Part 1) by Honor Sisk Vol. 11 No. 1, 1991 - ISSN 0332-4117 The Outer Islands of Clew Bay: A Study (Island More, Knockycahillaun, Rabbit Island and Quinsheen Island), (Part II) by Honor Sisk Life on Island More and Knockycahillaun By Anna Hawkshaw (Clew Bay) Some aspects of trade in Clew Bay by John Mulloy Vol. 12 No. 1, 1992 - ISSN 0332-4117 Some aspects of trade in Clew Bay, Part II by John Mulloy	Journal of the Clifden and Connemara Heritage Group Vol. 2 No. 1, 1995 - ISSN 0791 94SX St. Mac Dara's Church and Island by F. J. Bigger Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 57 - 1994 Island life off co. Down: the Copeland Islands, 177-182 by ROYLE, S.A.
Children
The Coriander - Eilís Dillon (fiction) Faber and Faber - 1963 ISBN 1 85371 214 0 Reviews	The Lost Island - Eilís Dillon (fiction) London, Faber, 1952 New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1954 Reviews
The Island of Horses - Eilís Dillon (fiction) London, Faber - 1956 New York, Funk and Wagnalls - 1957 Reviews	The Singing Cave - Eilís Dillon (fiction) London - Faber -1959 New York - Funk and Wagnalls - 1960 Dublin - Poolbeg Press -1991 ISBN 1 85371 153 5
The Fort of Gold - Eilís Dillon (fiction) London - Faber - 1961 New York - Funk and Wagnalls - 1961 Reviews	The Sea Wall - Eilís Dillon (fiction) London - Faber -1965 New York - Farrar Straus -1965 Dublin - Poolbeg 1994 ISBN 1 85371 304 X

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