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Definition of Aran Islands
1. Noun. Three small islands belonging to Ireland at the entrance to Galway Bay.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aran Islands
Literary usage of Aran Islands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"(DH) Aran Islands, or SOUTH ARAN, three islands lying across Galway Bay, on the
west coast of Ireland, in a south-easterly direction, forming a kind of ..."
2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"If any one is skep- that when Synge passed from the Latin tical, we point to the
fact that something 30 Quarter to the Aran Islands he was re- like the ..."
3. A Selected Bibliography of the Anthropology and Ethnology of Europe by William Zebina Ripley (1899)
"Ethnography of the Aran Islands. (Proc. Royal Irish acad., Dublin, series 3, ii, pp.
768-830. ... Aran Islands ..."
4. Insula Sanctorum Et Doctorum: Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars by John Healy (1890)
"We propose, therefore, to give a fuller account of the Aran Islands, both in the
present and the past, than might, perhaps, be expected from the scope of ..."
5. On an Irish Jaunting-car Through Donegal and Connemara by Samuel Gamble Bayne (1902)
"1 Aran Islands THE Aran Isles lie out in the Atlantic, some twenty-nine miles
from shore, being visited by a small steamer twice a week. ..."
6. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1901)
"by the sea-cliff, from the rest, in the manner of some of the stone forts on the
Aran Islands and elsewhere ; but whether this was an ancient erection like ..."
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