Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson (1935-2020) was brought up in Yorkshire, England. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands to write and make maps and then moved to Roundstone in County Galway. Among his books are Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Writings (1996), My Time in Space (2001), Tales and Imaginings (2002), and Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness (2008). His most recent book is Experiments on Reality (2019).
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