Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Experiencing and Representing Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island between two Worlds....Pages 13-25
Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind....Pages 26-38
Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland....Pages 39-50
Language and Landscapes of Ireland....Pages 51-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Derek Mahon’s Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction....Pages 69-80
Fictionalizing Division: the Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin....Pages 81-93
‘The post-past city’: Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O’Reilly....Pages 94-105
Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition....Pages 106-118
Landscapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann’s Fiction....Pages 119-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Monumental Landscapes: Riding the Boundaries of an Independent Ireland with the Early Sinn Féin Movement....Pages 131-141
Irish Nationalism and the Natural Insular Landscape of Ireland before Partition: Insularity Versus the Wishes of the Inhabitants....Pages 142-153
The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape....Pages 154-167
Rural Development in the Border Areas: From ‘Borderscaping’ to Cross-border Planning....Pages 168-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Altered Edge: the Impact of the Construction Boom on the Landscape of the Urban Periphery....Pages 183-188
Our Landscape, our Heritage: Building Toward a New Legislative Approach to Empower Local Communities....Pages 189-200
Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorization: an Irish Agri-environment Perspective....Pages 201-216
The Metropolitan Cork Green Belt: Synergies and Tensions between Strategic and Local Understandings of Landscape Value....Pages 217-232
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
The Renaissance of the Forest in Contemporary Art in Ireland....Pages 235-249
The Geography of the Place in Doherty’s Work....Pages 250-262
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Sculpture in the Irish Landscape....Pages 263-270
Transforming the City: the Stakes of Cultural and Artistic Landscaping in Post Conflict Belfast....Pages 271-282
Ballymun in Dermot Bolger’s Plays: Beyond the Urban Landscape....Pages 283-295
Belfast: An Eyeless City....Pages 296-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-311