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This is a lavish, beautifully illustrated look at an tir aineoil -- the unknown country of Conamara, the Irish-speaking area (or Gaeltacht) west of Galway. The photographs were taken over a twenty-five year period and are primarily of the people themselves. They are the products and the bearers of a robust culture and tradition which has become fragile in our own time. It is a culture which the modernizing influences of the late twentieth century have tested to the full. The dual language (Irish-English) text provides in-depth information about the people and their way of life.