Tory Islanders

A People of the Celtic Fringe

Robin Fox

This is an account of a unique people: a group of Gaelic-speaking islanders located nine miles off the coast of Donegal in the extreme northwest of Ireland. Their roots go back to pre-Christian Ireland, and they’ve maintained ways of life which have disappeared on the mainland and in Europe. “An absorbing account of the ways in which a folk people adjust to the natural setting, to each other and to impingements from the outside.” Solon T. Kimball, American Anthropologist