Publisher's Synopsis
This book tells the story of Ireland through the stone walls ÔÇô 240,000 miles of them ÔÇô that are an inescapable facet of one of the most admired landscapes in the world. They divide the fields into indefinable snippets, or break the landscape into a sundappled patchwork, looking as if they have been there forever, splashed ashore with the first settlers in Ireland 8,000 years ago. Richard Coniff's text deftly conveys the marvelous humor of the Irish and the legends the walls of Ireland inspire and Alen MacWeeney's beautiful photographs conjure up the endless beauty of the land ÔÇô from the Dingle peninsula up to County Donegal, from Connemara and the Aran Islands across to County Down. Together, they make this book a treasure.
