{"product_id":"the-aran-islands-another-world-9781901866155","title":"The Aran Islands: Another World","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 Bridgets Eve (1 February) and St Johns 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 Irelands western seaboard. An introductory essay  The Light before the Object: Bill Doyle  Photographer  by broadcaster and documentary film-maker Muirs Mac Conghail  accompanies the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279838044213,"sku":"ByrdShop_1901866157","price":99.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781901866155.jpg?v=1780613010","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-aran-islands-another-world-9781901866155","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}