Open Book
1011 Washington Avenue South
Performance Hall, Second Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP via eventbrite to help us plan!
Join us for an evening inspired by the landscape and literature of Western Ireland as shared through writer and cartographer Tim Robinson’s epic Connemara Trilogy: Listening to the Wind, The Last Pool of Darkness, and A Little Gaelic Kingdom.
Featuring O’Shaughnessy Award Winning Poet and filmmaker, Luke Morgan, and Dr. David Gardiner, Director of the Center for Irish Studies and Editor of the International journal, New Hibernia Review. Enjoy readings and conversation about the majestic and still sometimes unknown landscapes of Connemara, followed by book sales, signings, and light refreshments.
Presented by Milkweed Editions and the University of St. Thomas’ Center for Irish Studies, this event is free and open to the public, please register to help us plan!
Tim Robinson
A cartographer and writer, Tim Robinson was the author of, most recently, the Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called “one of the most remarkable nonfiction projects undertaken in English.” He was twice recipient of the Irish Book Award.
“A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past.”—John Banville
“He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist’s eye and a scientist’s sensibility.”—Colm Tóibín
In the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape—weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meeting of sea and shore into the region’s mythologies.
