PDF Designing for Screen: Production and Art Direction Explained by Georgina Shorter in Arts-Photography

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Errislannan; or Flannans peninsula; juts out into the North Atlantic on Europes western extremity south of Clifden; Connemara; Co. Galway. The home of Alannah Heather; it gave shape to her life; and to this book. The Heathers were minor Protestant gentry and estate-owners who occupied Errislannan Manor for five generations from the 1790s to the 1960s. The author tells their story; using family diaries and letters salvaged from a coach-house loft before the auction; and enlarges upon it in this remarkable self-portrait; articulating a childhood and landscape peopled by cottagers and fisherfolk; islanders and evangelicals; and a richly eccentric body of relatives. Their history reveals Irelands in microcosm - touching upon the Great Famine and subsequent diaspora; the 1916 Rising and civil war; the Alcock and Brown landing on Derrygimlagh bog; and the more intimate dramas of unrequited love; bereavement and isolation; in a perpetual cycle of exile and repatriation. Aslant of an Anglo-Irish upbringing; Alannah Heathers career as an artist took her to the Slade and London in the 1920s; to St Ives on her marriage in the 1940s; and to Sark in the Channel Islands; with painterly excursions to Bruges and Budapest during the 1930s; returning time and again like a salmon to its beloved spawning-ground in Connemara. The voice in Errislannan is immediate; affectionate and unobtruding - the narrative; illuminated by shards of memory; restores a personal and collective past. It is a singular journey of self discovery; and an enduring masterwork; resonant as its subjects canvases. A delightful book; full of beauty and emotion ... wonderful reading. - Gemma Hussey; Irish Independent A splendid book. - In Times Eye; The Irish Times