”A special place at a special time”: Fran oise Henry's diaries on Inishkea North (Ireland). Janet T. Marquardt (ed.), Fran oise Henry in Co. Mayo. The Inishkea Journals, Four Courts Press, 2012

A review of Janet T. Marquardt (ed.), Fran oise Henry in Co. Mayo. The Inishkea Journals. The French art historian Fran oise Henry spent four summers excavating at the remote Irish island of Inishkea North, where she searched for the remains of an early Christian settlement. This book reproduces her personal journals written during her excursions during the summers of 1937, 1938, 1946 and 1950, translated into English and complemented by clarifying notes as well as an introduction by the editor Janet T. Marquardt. Henry's is an intriguing testimony of the landscape, folklore and daily life on the Mullet Peninsula, all seen through the eyes of a foreigner, facing the struggles of a woman carrying out investigations in a rural corner of the world during the first half of the twentieth century.