Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural HistoryHow has Irish nature been studied? How has it been expressed in literature and popular culture? How has it influenced, and been influenced by, political, economic and social change? These long neglected questions are pursued in Nature in Ireland, a pioneering collection of original essays by leading naturalists, science writers and cultural historians who bring us from the geological prehistory of the island to the environmental threats of the late

Ralph Cusack

These works

together with copious memorabilia of the period including several of the early French watercolours

Seosamh Mac Grianna pens his reaction to an anglicised

the insecurity and begrudgery

splits his career as an engineer into two distinct parts

Mícheál Ó Gaoithín (1904–74)

recording street scenes

There is a foreword by hospice movement founder Dr Michael Kearney

here in Ireland

sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival

to Nagaland in the far north-east of India