Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Mianowski PART I: BIRTH OF THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AND THE MYTH OF LOSS From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island Between Two Worlds; L.André Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind; D.Hamon Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland; F.Bennett Language and Landscapes of Ireland; J.McCabe PART II: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY MYTHS Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction; J.Kruczkowska Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berli; S.Schwerter 'The post-past city': Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly; F.McCann Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition; N.Cronin Landscapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann's Fiction; S.Mikowski PART III: BORDERSCAPING Monumental Landscapes: Riding the Boundaries of an Independent Ireland with the Early Sinn Féin Movement; M.Staunton Irish Nationalism and the Natural Insular Landscape of Ireland Before Partition: Insularity Versus the Wishes of the Inhabitants; P.Cauvet The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape; C.McCall Rural Development in the Border Areas: From 'borderscaping' to Cross-border Planning; M.C.Considère-Charon PART IV: LOCAL HERITAGE AND GLOBAL SPEED The Altered Edge. The Impact of the Construction Boom on the Landscape of the Urban Periphery; G.Cahill Our landscape, Our Heritage - Building Toward a New Legislative Approach to Empower Local Communities; M.Starrett Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorisation - an Irish Agri-environment Perspective; J.Whelan et al The Metropolitan Cork Green Belt: Synergies and Tensions Between Strategic and Local Understandings of