Tim Robinson (cartographer)

Tim Robinson (26 March 1935 – 3 April 2020) was an English writer and cartographer. He was born in Yorkshire, England. Robinson made maps of the Aran Islands, Connemara, and the Burren in County Clare; these were published by Folding Landscape. His two-volume study of the Aran Islands, Stones of Aran, had good reviews of topographical and culture lore.Michael Viney, review of The Stones of Aran , Irish Times. 

His most recent work was the publication of a three-volume study of Connemara called Listening to the Wind, A Little Gaelic Kingdom, and The Last Pool of Darkness. He was a member of the Irish arts organisation Aosdána.

Robinson won two Irish Book Awards: the 2007 Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year for Connemara: Listening to the Wind Irish Book Awards: Previous Winners  and the 2011 International Education Services Best Irish-Published Book of the Year for Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom.Irish Book Awards: 2011 Awards 

Robinson died at a hospital in London on 3 April 2020 at the age of 85 of COVID-19 during the pandemic, aged 85. Robinson died two weeks after the death of his wife and collaborator Mairéad Robinson.

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