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Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism

The Wearing of the Deep Green

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Authors:
  1. Donna L. Potts

    1. Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  • Brings together analysis of a wide range of environmental activism, fiction, creative nonfiction, and music
  • Includes coverage of authors such as Seamus Heaney, Caitriona O'Reilly, Paul Muldoon, and Ciaran Carson
  • Identifies a strand of ecofeminism running through the environmental protests

Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
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  2. Roads to Nowhere: Irish Roads Protests

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 1-37

  3. Music in Stone: Ecomusicology and the Burren

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 39-68

  4. Bogspeak: Biosemiotics and Bogland

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 69-88

  5. “Farewell to Every White Cascade”: Ecological Protests Over Natural Resources

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 89-111

  6. Glór Na hAoise: Songs of Solidarity in the Shell to Sea Campaign

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 113-141

  7. Creature Care: Irish Animals and the Ethic of Care

    • Donna L. Potts
    Pages 143-188

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 189-209
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About this book

This book examines how the Irish environmental movement, which began gaining momentum in the 1970s, has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers, artists, and musicians. It examines Irish environmental writing, music, and art within their cultural contexts, considers how postcolonial ecocriticism might usefully be applied to Ireland, and analyzes the rhetoric of Irish environmental protests. It places the Irish environmental movement within the broader contexts of Irish national and postcolonial discourses, focusing on the following protests: the M3 Motorway, the Burren campaign, the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear protest, Shell to Sea, the turf debate, and the animal rights movement.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Donna L. Potts

About the author

Donna L. Potts is Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Washington State University, USA. She is the author of two books about poetry, Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield (1992) and Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition (2011), as well as a book of her own poetry, Waking Dreams (2012). She lived in Galway while holding a Fulbright Lecturing Award at the National University in Ireland from 1997 to 1998, returning there on sabbatical from 2004 to 2005, and again, for a fellowship in the NUIG Irish Studies Centre, from 2011 to 2012.

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