by Tim Robinson
Ród Charn Maolín, 1
Ród na Creige Móire, 1, 2
Ród na gCaiptíní, 1
Róidín an Phúca, 1
Róidín an Turlaigh, 1, 2
Róidín Chlaí Chox, 1
Róidín Docherty (Róidín Donnellan, Róidín Seoirse), 1
Róidín Mháirtín, 1
Róidín na Síog, 1
Róisí Mhór (midwife), 1, 2
Rónán, St., 1, 2
Ros a’ Mhíl (Connemara), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
rose chafer beetle, 1, 2
Ros Muc (Connemara), 1, 2, 3
Roundstone (Connemara), 1
round tower, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Roy (factory worker), 1
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, visit to Aran, 1
rubbish-dump, 1
ruined cabins, poem about, 1
rye, 1, 2; harvesting, 1
Rynne, Prof. Etienne, 1, 2
St. Brigid’s (Catholic chapel), 1
St. John’s Day, 1
St. John’s Eve, see bonfires
St. Lawrences: Lady Geraldine Digby, 1; Sir Thomas, Earl of Howth, 1;
Hon. Thomas Kenelm Digby, 1, 2
St. Macdara’s Day, 1
St. Macdara’s Island, 1
saints, see individual names
saints’ beds, see leabaí
Saints’ Island (Lough Ree), 1
saints’ “Lives,” 1
St. Thomas’s (Protestant church), 1, 2, 3
sally gardens, 1, 2, 3
Salrock (Connemara), 1
“salting” of digs, 1
Samhain (Hallowe’en), 1
“Saucepans,” the, 1, 2, 3, 4
sayings about: Aristotle, 1; building out to the west, 1;
dividing five eggs, 1;
Eochaill, 1;
fox on your line, 1;
Laetheanta na Bó Riabhaigh (Days of Brindled Cow), 1;
peacock’s legs, 1;
straw, 1;
table you couldn’t buy, 1;
“Whoever las it…,” 1
scailp (cleft), 1
Scailp Pháidín Uí Uiginn, 1
Scairbh, An, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
scarps: east/west boundary, 1; and spring-lines, 1, 2;
see also limestone
Sceach Mhór, An, 1, 2
schoolchildren, 1, 2, 3
schools: building of, 1; in chapel, 1;
Irish language, 1, 2;
national, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
Protestant, 1, 2, 3;
Scoil na “Jumpers,” 1;
vocational school, 1, 2
Screigín, An, 1, 2
Scrios Buaile na bhFeadóg, 1
Scrios Mór, An, 1
scutch grass, 1
Seacht dTeampaill, Na, 1
Séadna (Fr. O’Leary), 1
Sea Fencibles, 1
sea-lily fossils, 1
Sealy, Douglas (critic), 1
sean-nós (old-style singing), 1
sean-talamh (“old land”), 1
settlement pattern, 1; see also individual villages
Seven Churches, the, 1
“Seven Romans” stone, 1, 2
shale-and clay-bands, 1, 2, 3
shamrock, 1
Shannon, River, 1
Shee, George (aid-donor), 1
sheep, running after, 1
shell-middens, 1, 2, 3
shops, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
siar (west), 1
signal-towers, 1, 2
silver torc, 1
Sinn Féin, 1, 2, 3
Skellig Michael, 1
sky-signs, 1, 2
slab-shrines, 1
slave, 1
Sleepy Hollow (Baile an Dúin), 1
Sliabh Mór, An, 1
Slyne Head, 1, 2, 3
Smith (trawler agent), 1
smithies: Fearann an Choirce, 1, 2, 3
soir (east), 1
solution-hollows, 1
Somerville, E. O., 1, 2
“Song of the Arranman, The,” 1, 2
souperism, 1, 2; “Soupers’ List,” 1
spade, 1
Spéicí, Na, 1
Spidéal, An (Spiddle, Connemara), 1, 2, 3
spider, rare species of, 1
springs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sruthán (Sruffawn), 1;
Sruthán Beag, 1
staighre (type of stile), 1, 2, 3
Stail Yorke (stallion), 1, 2
standing stones, 1, 2; see also cross-inscribed slabs and pillars
Stanford, Fr., 1
“Stations, the,” 1, 2
Stephens, Dr., 1
stick-fighting, 1
stiles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
stoat, 1, 2
stócáil, 1; see also reclamation of land
Stokes, William, and Whitley Stokes, 1
Stone Age, see Neolithic period
stone-ricks, 1
Stones of Aran Part I: review, 1; writing it, 1
Stoney, Prof. George, 1, 2
Stoney, Dr. James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
storms, 1, 2; storm-worship, 1, 2
story-tellers, 1; see also Gillan family (Seán) and Máirtín Ó Conaola
Strafford, Earl of, 1
straw, measures of, 1
Streamstown (Connemara), 1, 2
“street,” 1, 2
“street-villages,” 1
stye, cure for, 1
Suicín, An, 1
Sunda Caoch, An, 1,
sun-fish (basking shark), 1, 2, 3
sun-sand-&-sex, 1
sunsets, 1, 2, 3
Swift, Dean, 1, 2
Symons, Arthur, 1
Synge, Rev. Alexander, 1
Synge, J.M., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
Syringopora (fossil coral), 1
tae scailpreach (maidenhair fern, q.v), 1
Taibhdhearc, An (theatre), 1
teachers’ residences, 1; Cill Éinne, 1, 2;
Cill Rónáin, 1;
Fearann an Choirce, 1, 2, 3;
Sruthán, 1
Teaghlach Éinne, 1
Teampall an Cheathrair Álainn, 1
Teampall an Phoill, 1
Teampall Asúrnaí, 1
Teampall Bheannáin, 1, 2, 3
Teampall Bhreacáin, 1
Teampall Chiaráin, 1, 2
Teampall Chrónáin (Co. Clare), 1
Teampall Mhic Duach, 1
Teampall na Naomh, 1
Teannaire, An, 1
Telectron Ltd., 1
telegraph and telephone poles, 1
telegraph link, 1
“termon,” 1
thatch, reed, 1
Thomas, Dylan and Caitlín, 1
Thomond, 1, 2, 3
Thompson, George (agent), 1, 2, 3
Thompson, Thomas (agent), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Thomson, General, 1, 2
“Tiger” King, 1, 2, 3
Tír na nÓg (Land of Youth), 1, 2, 3
Tizzard, A. (RAF gunner), 1
Tobar an Bhradáin, 1
Tobar an Bhuaile Bhródúil, 1
Tobar an Cheatrair Álainn, 1
Tobar Bhreacáin, 1
Tobar Chiaráin, 1
Tobar Ghréasaí na Scilleacha, 1
Tobar Ghrióir, 1, 2, 3
Tobar Iaráirne, 1, 2
Tobar Mhic Duach, 1
Tobar na Cúig Scilleacha, 1
Tobar na mBráthar, 1
Tobar na nAdhairc, 1
Tomáisín Jamesie (Ó Flaithearta), 1, 2
tombstones, 1, 2
Tom Tom Mhikey Tom (butcher’s son), 1
tourism, 1, 2, 3
townlands, see Cill Éinne, Cill Mhuirbhigh, Eochaill, and Eoghanacht
Trácht Each, 1
Trá na bhFranncach, 1
treasure, buried, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tromra castle (Co. Clare), 1
tuberculosis, 1
“turlach” (turlough), 1
Turlach Mór, An (C
ill Rónáin), 1
Turlach na mBrathar, 1
Turlough (Burren), 1
turloughs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Túr Mháirtín, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tutty, Fr. Benedict, 1
Twelfth Night, 1
Twelve Bens, the (Connemara), 1
Ua Concheannáin, Peadar, 1
Uí Briúin, 1
Uí Fiachrach, 1, 2
Uí Néill, 1, 2
“Uisce Glan an Charna” (song), 1
urine, used by weavers, 1
Ussher, Archbishop James, 1
Vallancey, Charles, 1, 2
Vendryes, Prof., Lexique Étymologique de l’Irlandais Ancien, 1
Veneti, 1
Vestal (steam yacht), 1
Vietnam War, 1
Vikings: posible burial, 1; raids on Aran, 1
Vinegar, the, 1
Volunteers, 1
Voyage of Maol Dúin, 1, 2
Voyage of the Currach of the Uí Corra, 1
Vyvyan, Clara, On Timeless Shores, 1
Waddell, Prof. J., 1, 2, 3
wages, labourers’, 1
Wakeman, William, 1, 2, 3, 4
wall, holding ghost of its builder, 1
walls (of fields), 1; claí fidín, 1;
total length in islands, 1
Ward, Fr. Hugh, 1
Wards (of Tromra castle), 1
Ware, James, 1
Warren, George (bible-reader), 1
Watchman, the (hut), 1
water, shortage of, 1, 2
water-trough, 1
Watty, Pádraic Joe, and his pub, 1
weaving, 1
wedge tombs, 1, 2, 3, 4
weeds, 1
Well of the Four Beauties, the, 1, 2, 3
Well of the Saints, The (Synge), 1
Western Stones Forts Project, 1
Westport grain-merchant, story about, 1
Westropp, Thomas (archaeologist), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
westwards direction, 1, 2; orientation of cottages, 1
whale: stranded, 1; vertebrae in clochán, 1
Whithorn (“Candida Casa”), 1
Wigginses, 1, 2, 3, 4; monuments to, 1
Wilde, Oscar, 1
Wilde, William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wilson, Lt. Robert, 1
Winnie (Hernon, Gort na gCapall), 1
wise women (herbalists), 1, 2; see also Nell an Tower
Wolfhound Press, 1
women: discontented, 1; contented, 1;
their place, 1
wool: smuggling, 1; spinning, 1, 2;
weaving, 1
Woolley, Captain, 1
wren, and Na Caiptíní, 1
Wright, Prof. E.P., 1, 2
x quantity in the Fairy Faith, 1
Year of the French (1798), 1, 2; fugitives in Aran, 1, 2
Yeats, W.B., 1, 2, 3, 4
Yorkes: lighthouse-builder, and Stail Yorke, 1; Peadar, 1
Zimmer, Heinrich, 1, 2
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MAX BEERBOHM Seven Men
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EMMETT GROGAN Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
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ALISTAIR HORNE A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962
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RICHARD HUGHES A High Wind in Jamaica
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MAUDE HUTCHINS Victorine
HENRY JAMES The New York Stories of Henry James
HENRY JAMES The Other House
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DAVID JONES In Parenthesis
HELEN KELLER The World I Live In
FRIGYES KARINTHY A Journey Round My Skull
YASHAR KEMAL Memed, My Hawk
YASHAR KEMAL They Burn the Thistles
MURRAY KEMPTON Part of Our Time: Some
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DAVID KIDD Peking Story
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PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR A Time of Gifts
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D.B. WYNDHAM LEWIS AND CHARLES LEE (EDITORS) The Stuffed Owl
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The Waste Books
H.P. LOVECRAFT AND OTHERS The Colour Out of Space
ROSE MACAULAY The Towers of Trebizond
NORMAN MAILER Miami and the Siege of Chicago
JANET MALCOLM In the Freud Archives
OSIP MANDELSTAM The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
OLIVIA MANNING School for Love
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Afloat
HENRI MICHAUX Miserable Miracle
JESSICA MITFORD Hons and Rebels
NANCY MITFORD Madame de Pompadour
HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Chaos and Night
ALBERTO MORAVIA Boredom
ALBERTO MORAVIA Contempt
JAN MORRIS Conundrum
ÁLVARO MUTIS The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
L.H. MYERS The Root and the Flower
YURI OLESHA Envy
RUSSELL PAGE The Education of a Gardener
BORIS PASTERNAK, MARINA TSVETAYEVA, AND RAINER MARIA RILKE Letters, Summer 1926
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ANDREY PLATONOV The Foundation Pit
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J.F. POWERS Morte d’Urban
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RAYMOND RADIGUET Count d’Orgel’s Ball
JEAN RENOIR Renoir, My Father
GREGOR VON REZZORI Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
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