My Time in SpaceIn an essay from 1996 collecton Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own time in space, moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip, a pilgrimage to the midnight sun, adventures in the art

He used linguistics to trace the origins of myths and saints back to pre-Celtic Ireland and Europe

he concludes that our cultural pasts still sponsor ‘ecological havoc’

Tim Robinson has been stepping into spacetime since 1972

While modern Irish poetry in English displays a notable reticence

Padraic Fallon (1905 – 1974)

These thirty-two portraits in word and image provide an alternative view of the possibilities of life in Ireland

an enveloping mother

folk drama and religious songs in the Irish language

these stories delicately but potently reveal their characters' lives in all their toughness and tenderness

He made the name of the Gate Theatre in 1929 with his astonishing first play The Old Lady Says ‘No

where they were both living

head and tail bound Tristram Shandy is one of English literature’s most curious