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The Tory Islanders

The Tory Islanders
Author: Robin Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1978-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521218702

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Stories from Tory Island

Stories from Tory Island
Author: Dorothy Harrison Therman
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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A collection of transcripts of conversations with the elderly inhabitants of Tory Island. Personal reminiscences and stories featuring topics such as fairies, death, wakes and ghosts, childbirth and midwifery provide insight into the sparsely populated island's folklore and cultural history.


Tory Islanders

Tory Islanders
Author: Robin Fox
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Total Pages:
Release: 1995-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780268093600

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On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean

On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean
Author: Lillis Ó Laoire
Publisher: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Individual desire and overcoming the rigors of social scrutiny are important factors in the development of an active public performer. In a special study of one song, Lillis O Laoire shows how the song itself emerges as a mediator of dilemmas and tensions of island life. In a meticulous exposition of the links between music, text, and performance, the vicissitudes of island life are revealed, while these tensions are alleviated by singing humorous ribald items to provide a deliberate contrast.


The Waves of Tory

The Waves of Tory
Author: Jim Hunter
Publisher: Colin Smythe
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780861404568

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In a world where everything seems tame and familiar, islands promise wildness and difference. Tory Island, the most remote and exposed of all the inhabited Irish islands, is no exception to this rule. The great seas ranging in from the Atlantic and the strong currents sweeping along its southern coast have isolated the island thus helping in the retention of a way of life that has long since disappeared on the mainland and the survival of Irish as the spoken language. The Waves of Tory tells the story of this small community in terms of their attachment to the land, their reverence for and awe of the sea, and their well-preserved egalitarian society, where dancers, musicians, storytellers and painters take pride of place. The text, in English and Irish, is interlaced with legends and tales of the supernatural, and illustrated with accounts of island customs and beliefs. The Tory islanders are a people whose roots go back to prehistoric times; typical is the King of Tory, Patsy Dan Rodgers, whose office is pre-Christian in origin. Links with the past are everywhere in evidence from the Iron Age fort, home to Balor of the Evil Eye, to the impressive remains of the early Celtic Church of St Colmcille. Superimposed on this pattern are the clustered settlements and vast open fields of the ancient Rundale farming system and the piers, boat rests, and kelp-pits, the products of man's more recent activities on the sea and the shore. These survivals from the past strike deep resonances with those in search of the "real" Ireland.


The Tory Islanders

The Tory Islanders
Author: Robin Fox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780268018900

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The Tory Islanders, an established classic of anthropological writing and analysis, is an account of a unique people: a group of Gaelic-speaking islanders located nine miles off the coast of Donegal in the extreme northwest of Ireland. Their roots go back to pre-Christian Ireland, and in their isolation they have maintained ways of life that have disappeared on the mainland and the rest of Europe. Perhaps in no other place is the archaic structure of the peasantry so well preserved - not unchanged, but ingeniously adapted to fit old customs to new uses. The book describes the history, legends, demography, genealogies, kinship, land tenure, boat crews, and household and marriage arrangements (where it was customary for many husbands and wives not to live in the same house.) In addition, Robin Fox conveys the spirit and humor of the islanders, which, he claims, represent a continuing hymn to the human capacity to survive and adapt. The author has written a new preface specially for this edition.


Donegal Islands

Donegal Islands
Author: Wallace Clark
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781900935319

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Wild Horses of the Summer Sun

Wild Horses of the Summer Sun
Author: Tory Bilski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1643131613

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A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses. "Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virgina Woolf Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while. When they first came to Thingeyar, these women were strangers to one another. The only thing they had in common was their passion for Icelandic horses. However, over the years, their relationships with each other deepens, growing older together and keeping each other young. Combining the self-discovery of Eat, Pray, Love, the sense of place of Under the Tuscan Sun, and the danger of Wild, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun revels in Tory's quest for the "wild" inside her. These women leave behind the usual troubles at home: illnesses, aging parents, troubled teenagers, financial worries and embrace their desire for adventure. Buoyed by their friendships with each other and their growing attachments and bonds with the otherworldly horses they ride, the warmth of Thingeyrar's midnight sun carries these women through the rest of the year's trials and travails. Filled with adventure and fresh humor, as well as an incredible portrait of Iceland and its remarkable equines, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun will enthrall and delight not just horse lovers, but those of us who yearn for a little more wild in everyday life.


New Model Island

New Model Island
Author: Alex Niven
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1912248638

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A study of place, identity, music, politics and regionalism which calls for a radical restructuring of the British Isles. In the early twenty-first century, "Englishness" suddenly became a hot topic. A rash of art exhibitions, pop albums and coffee table books arrived on the scene, all desperate to recover England’s lost national soul. But when we sweep away the patriotic stereotypes, we begin to see that England is a country that does not — and perhaps should not — exist in any essential sense. In this provocative text combining polemic and memoir, Alex Niven argues that the map of the British Isles should be torn apart completely as we look towards a time of radical political reform. Rejecting outdated nationalisms, Niven argues for a renovated model of culture and governance for the islands — a fluid, dynamic version of regionalism preparing the way for a new "dream archipelago".


The Cursing Stone

The Cursing Stone
Author: Tom Sigafoos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781716325298

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County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?