This is a highly personal and emotionally charged examination through photography of the people of Ireland. Each county is also represented by a piece of new writing commissioned specially by an appropriate Irish writer. Text and photographs work to create a variety of moods that reflect a proud, beleaguered, passionate country and the men, women and children that give it heart. Donovan Wylie was born in 1971 in Belfast and his first one-man exhibition of photographs of Irish gypsy families, Travellers, was part of the 1988 Sense of Ireland Festival at the Riverside Studios, London. Contributing writers include Seamus Heaney, Edna O'Brien, Brian Moore, William Trevor, Neil Jordan and John Banville.