Huge thanks to the following individuals, studios, writers and publishers who donated books for our collection:
+ Adamant Media Corporation
The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man, Arthur William Moore
+ Alice Rawsthorn
Design as an Attitude, Alice Rawsthorn
Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, Alice Rawsthorn
Yves Saint Laurent, Alice Rawsthorn
+ Alma Classics
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolfe
+ Aoife McElwain
Slow at Work, Aoife McElwain
+ Anthology Editions
Spirit of 76, John Ingham
Feel the Music, Paul Major
A Dance With Fred Astaire, Jonas Mekas
Party in the Back, Tino Razo
Altered States - The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
Do Angels Need Haircuts?, Lou Reed
Unusual Sounds, David Hollander
Imaginary Concerts, Peter Coffin
+ Anne Marshall
Island Places, Island Lives - Exploring Inishbofin & Inishark Heritage
Strands of Omey's Story, Bernadette Conroy
Connemara - A Little Gaelic Kingdom, Tim Robinson
Rara Avis of the Sea of Moyle, Tim Stampton
Ireland's Western Islands - Inishbofin, Aran Islands, Inisturk, Inishark, Clare & Talbot Islands, John Carlos
Omey Island: last man standing, Kevin Griffin
+ Birlinn Ltd
Scotland: Mapping the Islands, Christopher Fleet
Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay, Anne Cholawo
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland Circa 1695, Jean Munro
Poacher's Pilgrimage, Alastair McIntosh
A School in South Uist, F. G. Rea
The Guga Hunters, Donald S. Murray
The Vatersay Raiders, Ben Buxton
To the Hebrides, Ronald Black
A Drop in the Ocean, Polly Pullar
+ Canongate Books
Island Landfalls, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tales of the South Seas, Robert Louis Stevenson
Island People, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
+ Collins
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor, Michael Smith
+ Dedalus Press
Voices at the World's Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael, Paddy Bushe
+ Dewi Lewis Publishing
Wilder Mann, Charles Freger
+ Drop Everything
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
Since I Laid my Burden Down, Brontez Burnell
Women and Power, Mary Beard
Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa, Joshua Edwards
Castles and Islands, Joshua Edwards
Fantasies of the Library, Anna-Sophie Springer
The Descent of Man, Grayson Perry
Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein
Conflict is not Abuse, Sarah Schulman
Experimental Cocktail Club
The Element, Ken Robinson
Douleur Exquies, Sophie Calle
Bluets, Maggie Nelson
How To Be Invisible, Kate Bush
Wolfgang Tillmans 2017
Lost And Found, Danspace Project
Future Sex, Emily Witt
Hole&Corner, Magazine
Mongrel, Magazine
+ Erin Fornoff
Hymn to the Reckless, Erin Fornoff
+ Fitzcarraldo
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk
Compass, Mathias Enard
In The Dark Room, Brian Dillon
This Little Art, Kate Briggs
+ Granta
Indonesia etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, Elizabeth Pisani
Cove, Cynan Jones
Saharan Journey, Sven Lindqvist
Love of Country, Madeleine Bunting
The Cow Book, John O'Connell
The Wild Places, Robert MacFarlane
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago, Patrick Barkham
+ Historic Environment Scotland
The Small Isles, John Hunter
St Kilda: The Last and Outmost Isle, Angela Gannon
+ House of Lochar
Early in Orcadia, Naomi Mitchison
The Crofter and the Laird, John McPhee
+ IMMA
Lucian Freud, IMMA
Primal Architecture, IMMA
Shahzia Sikander, IMMA
A Day Like Any Other, IMMA
Hughie O'Donoghue, IMMA
Out of the Dark Room, IMMA
Second Sight, IMMA
Access All Areas - Symposia Series #2, IMMA
Are Jee Be?, Haroon Mirza
Parallel Occurence, Mark Manders
Fragile Absolutes, Alan Phelan
Images or Shadows, Gerard Byrne
Becoming, Alice Maher
3 Different Nights, Recurring, Grace Weir
New Faith Love Song, Garrett Phelan
This, and Other Things 1999-2010, Anne Tallentire
+ Irish Academic Press
Straw, Hay & Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition, Anne O'Dowd
Humble Works for Humble People , Noel Wilkins
+ Lilliput Press
The Aran Islands: another world, Bill Doyle
Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage: Selected Writings, Emyr Estyn Evans
The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage, Bob Quinn
Dreamtime, John Moriarty
The History of Magpies, Desmond Hogan
Fathers Come First, Rosita Sweetman
Nostos - An Autobiography, John Moriarty
Connemara After the Famine, Thomas Colville Scott
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara & Other Writings, Tim Robinson
Nature Guide to the Aran Islands, Con O'Rourke
From a Low and Quiet Sea, Donal Ryan
Nobody's Business - The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley, Ernie O'Malley
+ Mayo County Council
Clare Island: this time this place, Jim Vaughan
+ M/M PARIS
M to M of M/M (Paris), Emily King
+ O'Brien Press
The Skellig Story: Ancient Monastic Outpost - History - Folklore - Wildlife, Des Lavelle
Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way, Carsten Krieger
+ Penguin
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will, Judith Schalansky
Foe, JM Coetzee
The Sagas of the Icelanders, Jane Smiley
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions), Herman Melville
The Island of Dr Moreau, HG Wells
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, Hermann Palsson
Njal's Saga, Leifur Eiricksson
The Coral Island, R. M. Ballantyne
+ Prospect Books
North Atlantic Seafood, Alan Davidson
+ ROAD Publishing
Resevoir, Alice Maher
Living With: Hattie Stewart, Hattie Stewart
If You Close Your Eyes, Oda Jaune
Schude, Ryan Schude
+ Sheena & Monihan
History Is Made At Night, Godlis
+ Sheila Gallagher
Noa Noa - Journey to Tahiti, Paul Gaugin
Ireland - Our Island Home, Kevin Dwyer
The Way that I Went, Robert Lloyd Praeger
Vintage Swimwear - a History of 20th Century Fashions, Sarah Kennedy
The Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin
Collins Pocket Guide to the Seashore, John Barrett
Eileen Gray, Peter Adam
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
220 Aran Stitches and Patterns, Volume 5
Walls of Aran, Sean Scully
+ Thames & Hudson
Yokainoshima: island of monsters: Japanese folk rituals, Charles Freger
Cut That Out, Dr.Me
Islands: a trip through time and space, Peter Conrad
Oceanic art, Nicholas Thomas
A library on the edge of the ocean.
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Visual identity by DR.ME
DE Librarian Michelle Russell