Editing Aran Islands (section)

== In popular culture ==
* [[John Millington Synge]] wrote a book-length journal, ''[[s:The Aran Islands|The Aran Islands]]'',  completed in 1901 and published in 1907.
* The Aran Islands are mentioned in [[James Joyce]]'s short story "[[The Dead (Joyce short story)|The Dead]]" (1914) as a place where native Irish is spoken.
* The 1934 ethnofiction documentary film ''[[Man of Aran]]''
* [[Gilbert Bécaud]]'s two-act  ''L'Opéra d'Aran'' (1962) features a plot taking place on the Aran Islands.
* [[Seamus Heaney]]'s first book of poems, ''[[Death of a Naturalist]]'' (1966), contains a poem entitled "Lovers on Aran".
* The Aran Islands featured in the comedy television series ''[[Father Ted]]'' from 1995 to 1998, set on the fictional [[Craggy Island]], with real local sights such as the shipwreck of the steam trawler [[MV Plassy|MV ''Plassy'']] in the opening sequence. The island of Inishmore hosted a Friends of Ted festival in 2007.
* The 1996 play ''[[The Cripple of Inishmaan]]'' by [[Martin McDonagh]] is set on the Aran Islands. The play is the first in the Aran Islands Trilogy, followed in 2001 by ''[[The Lieutenant of Inishmore]]'', and the unpublished ''The Banshees of Inisheer''.
* The 1997 romantic comedy film ''[[The MatchMaker (1997 film)|The MatchMaker]]'' starring [[Janeane Garofalo]] is partially set on the Aran Islands.
* The 2000 song "El pozo de Aran" by Galician Celtic musician [[Carlos Núñez Muñoz|Carlos Núñez]], with lead vocals by Portuguese singer [[Anabela Braz Pires|Anabela]], is about a mother's pilgrimage to a holy well in the islands to heal her sickly child.
* The 2010 film ''[[Leap Year (2010 film)|Leap Year]]'' was partially filmed on Inishmore.
* The 2020 novella "The fourth island" by Sarah Tolmie is set on the fictional Aran island of Inis Caillte, to where lost souls are swept over.
* The 2022 film ''[[The Banshees of Inisherin]]'' was partially filmed on Inishmore.
* The songs from the album ''[[Man of Aran (album)|Man of Aran]]'' by the group [[British Sea Power|Sea Power]] all relate to the Aran Islands.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Talking Tom and Friends (TV series)|Talking Tom and Friends]]'', Talking Hank mentions a show set on the Aran Islands.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT158g2x_I=  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330020513/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT158g2x_I=  |archive-date=30 March 2023  |url-status=dead|title=Talking Tom and Friends - The Audition (episode 0) |work=[[Talking Tom and Friends (TV series)|Talking Tom and Friends]] |date=23 December 2014 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>