Connemara & Aran by Walter Pfeiffer

Published by Artisan House

Connemara & Aran is the follow-up to Walter Pfeiffer’s very successful book Connemara & Beyond. Full colour throughout with a new collection of evocative and stunning photographs of Connemara, south Mayo and the Aran Islands, with landscapes like no other and here is the book to match it. The book also includes poetry by highly acclaimed Irish writers both established and emerging poets with strong association to and with Connemara. They are Eva Bourke, Moya Cannon, Michael Coady, Eamon Grennan, Josie Guairim, Joan McBreen, Máire Áine Ní Dhireáin  and Mary O’Malley. Foreword by archaeologist Michael Gibbons.

In Walter Pfeiffer’s own words:  ‘Having made a book of Wicklow, my home, it seemed natural that I must follow that with a book on Connemara. Then having set myself the task, I began to understand that the physicality of Connemara itself defies definition, in the sense that, being a place without hard boundaries, the very limitlessness of the place – its own spiritual presence – becomes a part of its own mythology’.