He delivered the annual Parnell Lecture in February, 2011. Tim Robinson was elected Parnell Visiting Fellow for 2011, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1987 Tim and Máiréad Robinson won the first Ford European Conservation award that was given in Ireland, and they went on to represent Ireland at the Ford European Conservation Awards in Madrid the following year, 1988. Like the other two regional maps, these were published by Folding Landscapes, the specialist publishing house and information centre Tim and his wife Máiréad ran from their Roundstone base. In 1990, Robinson published his 1-inch map of Connemara with an accompanying gazetteer.
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There followed a series of recurring articles in the Connacht Tribune under the title "Mapping South Connemara". In 1981, Robinson began to turn his attentions to Connemara, writing a pamphlet, later expanded into a book, called "Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara". After his initial map of Aran, in 1977, he produced a two-inch map of the uplands of North-West Clare, covering The Burren, with a second edition in 1999. Robinson produced his first map of the Aran Islands in 1975 with a second edition in 1980, and "Oileáin Árainn", an accompaniment to the map in 1996. Career Īfter a career as a visual artist using the name Timothy Drever, in Istanbul, Vienna and London, he settled in the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway in the 1970s, and began a detailed study of the landscape of the West Region, Ireland. Born in England, he studied mathematics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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