JUST PUBLISHED - Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts

Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, Ed. Christine Cusick, Cork: Cork University Press, 2010.

Contents
Introduction / John Elder
-- Wings beating on stone : Richard Murphy's ecology / Eamonn Wall
-- Dark outlines, grey stone: nature, home and the foreign in Lady Morgan's The wild Irish girl and William Carleton's The black prophet / Jefferson Holdridge
-- 'Sympathy between man and nature' : landscape and loss in Synge's Riders to the sea / Joy Kennedy-O'Neill
-- 'Nothing can happen nowhere' : Elizabeth Bowen's figures in landscape / Joanna Tapp Pierce
-- George Moore's landscapes of return / Greg Winston
-- Ireland of the welcomes: colonialism, tourism and the Irish landscape / Eóin Flannery
-- Between country and city: Paula Meehan's ecofeminist poetics / Kathryn Kirkpatrick
-- 'Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place': Michael Longley's environmental elegies / Donna Potts
-- 'Becoming animal' in the novels of Edna O'Brien / Maureen O'Connor
-- Reading the landscape for clues: environment in Paddy Clarke ha ha ha / Miriam O'Kane Mara
-- Collaborative ecology in Martin McDonnagh's The cripple of Inishmaan / Karen O'Brien --
Conclusion: Mindful paths: an interview with Tim Robinson / Christine Cusick.

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