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Book Description: The first in a series, this illustrated volume introduces the reader to the history and folklife of this island in Clew Bay, County Mayo, and to the survey that provided the inspiration for the Royal Irish Academy's multidisciplinary endeavour. The Clare Island Survey of 1901 11 was the most ambitious natural history project ever undertaken in Ireland and the first major biological survey of a specific area carried out in the world. The New Survey, which was formally launched on Clare Island in 1991, constitutes a fresh baseline study using up to date methods and assesses almost a century of change. It should become a source for future environmental monitoring. To date, 26 separate studies have been carried out. Publication of the results begins with this first volume, which contains four contributions. Timothy Collins gives an account of the origins of the first Clare Island Survey and of the subsequent careers of the participants, among whom Robert Lloyd Praeger was a key figure. Criostoir Mac Carthaigh records aspects of the island's folklife farming and fishing practices, vernacular housing, boat and house construction. Kevin Whelan considers the evolution of landscape and society in the pre famine west of Ireland and focuses on the reshaping of Clare Island's settlement patterns by the Congested Districts Board from 1895. Lastly, Nollaig O Muraile documents the rich body of the island's place names.

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