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- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction Culture, Climate, Capital, and Contagion
- Chapter 1 Landscape and Literature in Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 2 The Irish Annals and Climate, Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries CE
- Chapter 3 The Environmental Vocabulary of Irish Folklore
- Chapter 4 Narratives of Arboreal Landscapes
- Chapter 5 Famine and Ecology, 1750–1900
- Chapter 6 Political Ecology in Nationalist Literature, 1880–1922
- Chapter 7 Solastalgic Modernism and the West in Irish Literature, 1900–1950
- Chapter 8 The Ecology of the Irish Big House, 1900–1950
- Chapter 9 Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry, ca. 1940–Present
- Chapter 10 Irish Travellers, the Environment, and Literature
- Chapter 11 The Oceanic Imaginaries of Modern Irish Writing
- Chapter 12 Landscape in Irish-Language Literature: Poetry and Prose, 1900–2000
- Chapter 13 Poetry and Place
- Chapter 14 Animals and Climate Crisis in Irish Poetry
- Chapter 15 Animals and Animality in Irish Fiction
- Chapter 16 The Political Ecology of Food and Hunger, 1950–Present
- Chapter 17 Built Environments and Lived Ecologies in Contemporary Irish Poetry, 1998–Present
- Chapter 18 Transnationalism and Environment in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Chapter 19 Energy Futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 12 - Landscape in Irish-Language Literature: Poetry and Prose, 1900–2000
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction Culture, Climate, Capital, and Contagion
- Chapter 1 Landscape and Literature in Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 2 The Irish Annals and Climate, Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries CE
- Chapter 3 The Environmental Vocabulary of Irish Folklore
- Chapter 4 Narratives of Arboreal Landscapes
- Chapter 5 Famine and Ecology, 1750–1900
- Chapter 6 Political Ecology in Nationalist Literature, 1880–1922
- Chapter 7 Solastalgic Modernism and the West in Irish Literature, 1900–1950
- Chapter 8 The Ecology of the Irish Big House, 1900–1950
- Chapter 9 Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry, ca. 1940–Present
- Chapter 10 Irish Travellers, the Environment, and Literature
- Chapter 11 The Oceanic Imaginaries of Modern Irish Writing
- Chapter 12 Landscape in Irish-Language Literature: Poetry and Prose, 1900–2000
- Chapter 13 Poetry and Place
- Chapter 14 Animals and Climate Crisis in Irish Poetry
- Chapter 15 Animals and Animality in Irish Fiction
- Chapter 16 The Political Ecology of Food and Hunger, 1950–Present
- Chapter 17 Built Environments and Lived Ecologies in Contemporary Irish Poetry, 1998–Present
- Chapter 18 Transnationalism and Environment in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Chapter 19 Energy Futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter demonstrates forms of belonging to place in Irish-language poetry and prose.Louis De Paor utilizes Mike Cronin’s term “denizen” to understand alternative forms of belonging in place and notes the military advantages for Irish nationalist fighters traversing the Irish landscape that arose from being able to access local folklore. The essay suggests that “The extent to which intimate knowledge of the local terrain facilitated the kind of guerrilla warfare prosecuted so successfully by Ó hAnnracháin and his comrades (of the Gaelic League) is evident in a significant body of writing in Irish by veterans of the Irish revolution.” This essay spans a wealth of Irish-language writers – from Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Máirtín Ó Direáin (1910–88), to Cathal Ó Searcaigh (1955–), Colm Breathnach (1961–), and many others. De Paor suggests that the aim of reclaiming “a more secure sense of belonging, of being at home in a place where landscape, language, history and community are fully integrated” is the defining characteristic of Irish-language revival.
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- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment , pp. 243 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022