{"id":1788871,"date":"2020-06-01T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788871"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T12:49:02","slug":"tim-robinson-1935-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/tim-robinson-1935-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Robinson, 1935-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Robinson<\/a>, cartographer and chronicler of the Irish regions of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara, died of complications from COVID-19 on 3 April 2020<\/a>; he was 85. \u201cGenerations of tourists have been guided and enthralled by his marvellous maps of these radiant places,\u201d writes Fintan O\u2019Toole in the Irish Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cBut it is his astonishing books, the two-volume Stones of Aran and the Connemara trilogy, that will stand as timeless monuments to a genius who combined the linguistic brilliance of a poet with the precision of the mathematician he once was.\u201d Also in the Irish Times<\/em>, Paul Clements looks at Robinson\u2019s idiosyncratic cartography<\/a>: \u201cFor Robinson everything was mappable, and for good measure, he added a few puzzles, doodles and whimsies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Robinson, cartographer and chronicler of the Irish regions of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara, died of complications from COVID-19 on 3 April 2020; he was 85. \u201cGenerations of tourists have been guided… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-1788871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-ireland","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2789,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/the-cultural-impact-of-the-irish-ordnance-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788871,"position":0},"title":"The Cultural Impact of the Irish Ordnance Survey","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"C\u00f3il\u00edn Parsons is the author of\u00a0The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford University Press, June 2016; Amazon, iBooks), which links the Ordnance Survey of Ireland to the origins of literary modernism in Ireland. 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