Irish Environmental Writing

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Ireland’s colonial history and its current, intense focus on the commercial or market value of land and landscape, have transformed the Irish relationship with land and the environment. In Ireland (as elsewhere), environmental decisions are all too often justified by the need to satisfy economic and business decisions that are deemed to supersede environmental concerns. While considering such moral quandaries produced by the age of Anthropocene, this course will focus on their literary representations in recent Irish novels, plays and poetry.