Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism The Wearing of the Deep Green /

• Main Author: Potts, Donna L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
• Subjects: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; British and Irish Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

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 postcolon...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Roads to Nowhere: Irish Roads Protests
• 2. Music in Stone: Ecomusicology and the Burren
• 3. Bogspeak: Biosemiotics and Bogland
• 4. "Farewell to Every White Cascade": Ecological Protests over Natural Resources
• 5. Glór Na hAoise: Songs of Solidarity in the Shell to Sea Campaign
• 6. Creature Care: Irish Animals and the Ethic of Care.