Connemara- A Little Gaelic Kingdomis the triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy. Robinson writes about the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaeltachts - with the encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born writer. He starts with the stories of the region's political and cultural rebels - including Patrick Pearse, who had a cottage in Ros Muc, and a small band of local volunteers who left a rich record of days on the run during the War of Independence. Robinson then explores the region's 'unquenchable talk of itself' in its extraordinary folklore, poetry and music - embodied in figures such as Joe Heaney, Caitlin Maude and Seán Mac Giollarnáth. Linking these people and their stories is the extraordinary landscape of this region that he mapped two decades ago - its 'inconstant coast' where the relationship between land and sea is of a dazzling complexity, its hills and lakes and islands. Nobody has ever written about the Irish landscape with the attention and beauty that shine through in every sentence of Tim Robinson's prose. Connemara- A Little Gaelic Kingdomcompletes one of the great literary projects of our time.