Long before there was a theoretical movement that gave a name to literary readings of nature, scholars have understood the importance of the natural world to an Irish cultural sensibility. An emphasis on place not only pervades Irish writing but also is in fact rooted in ancient traditions of Celtic mythology and place-lore.



While critical assessments of Irish place writing are numerous, few of them address such representations of the natural world as politically and culturally informed and scripted texts. The essays offer ecocritical readings of Irish literary and...

Unfolding Irish landscapes offers a comprehensive and sustained cross-disciplinary study of the work of cartographer, landscape writer and visual artist Tim Robinson. Robinson's work continues to garner significant attention not only in Ireland, but also in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, particularly with the recent celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his monumental Stones of Aran: pilgrimage. In The Guardian, Robert Macfarlane has described Robinson's work in Ireland as 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a landscape that has ever been...

LAUDATO SI AND NORTHERN APPALACHIA
Volume 6, Special Issue 1
Edited by William J. Collinge, Christine Cusick, and Christopher McMahon

The Significance of Pope Franciss Prophetic Call: Care for Our Common Homefor Northern Appalachia
Anne Clifford

Sustainable Communities and Eucharistic Communities: Laudato Si, Northern Appalachia, and Redemptive Recovery.
Lucas Briola

An Integral Eucharist? Pope Francis, Louis-Marie Chauvet, and Ecologys Relationship to Eucharist
Derek Hostetter

Pope Francis, Theology of the Body, Ecology, and Encounter
Robert Ryan

The Catholic Worker Farm in Lincoln...