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Nature, Environnement Et Écologie Politique En Irlande Nature, Environment and Environmentalism in Ireland Études irlandaises 44-1 | 2019 Nature, environnement et écologie politique en Irlande Nature, Environment and Environmentalism in Ireland Catherine Conan and Flore Coulouma (dir.) Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/etudesirlandaises/6788 DOI: 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.6788 ISSN: 2259-8863 Publisher Presses universitaires de Caen Printed version Date of publication: 14 November 2019 ISBN: 978-2-84133-945-7 ISSN: 0183-973X Electronic reference Catherine Conan and Flore Coulouma (dir.), Études irlandaises, 44-1 | 2019, « Nature, environnement et écologie politique en Irlande » [Online], Online since 21 November 2019, connection on 23 September 2020. 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Catherine Conan et Flore Coulouma : Introduction 7 Marjan Shokouhi Despirited Forests, Deforested Landscapes : 2019 : The Historical Loss of Irish Woodlands 17 | Études Nolwena Monnier : Nommer la nature : toponymie de la nature dans la Topographia Hibernica de Gerald of Wales 31 44-1 Marie Mianowski : Digging the Borderland in Brian McGilloway’s The Nameless Dead (2012) 47 irlandaises Florence Schneider : Geomantic de Paula Meehan ou comment lire et dire la nature 57 2019 | 44-1 Manuela Palacios : Relational Difference in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry : An Ecocritical Approach 73 Tom Herron et Anna Pilz : Cursed to the Trees, Enchanted by the Woods : Sweeney Astray 87 Maryvonne Boisseau et Marion Naugrette-Fournier : Nature, environnement Derek Mahon’s Geopoetic Horizons 101 Yvonne Scott : Living Water : Irish Artists and Ecology 117 et écologie politique en Irlande Poems by Mary O'Donnell 133 — irlandaises Comptes rendus | Book reviews 137 Nature, environment Notes sur les auteurs | Notes on contributors 163 and environmentalism in Ireland Études Études Numéro publié sous la direction de Catherine Conan et Flore Coulouma Presses universitaires ISSN : 0183-9373X ISBn : 978-2-84133-945-7 20 € de Caen Couv_EI_44_1.indd 1 21/10/2019 17:29 Revue publiée avec le soutien : – de l’Équipe de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les îles Britanniques, l’Irlande et l’Amérique du Nord – ERIBIA (université de Caen Normandie) ; – du Centre d’études en civilisations, langues et lettres étrangères – CECILLE (université Lille 3) ; – de l’équipe Langues, textes, arts et cultures du monde anglophone – PRISMES (université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3). 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ISSN : 0183-973X ISBN : 978-2-84133-945-7 © Presses universitaires de Caen, 2019. 14032 Caen Cedex – France Études irlandaises Nature, environnement et écologie politique en Irlande – Nature, environment and environmentalism in Ireland Sous la direction de Catherine Conan et Flore Coulouma 44-1 | 2019 ERIBIA Équipe de recherches interdisciplinaires sur les îles Britanniques, l’Irlande et l’Amérique du Nord Université de Caen Normandie Comité de rédaction Fabrice Mourlon (université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), responsable Fiona McCann (université Lille 3), responsable littérature Hélène Lecossois (université Lille 3), responsable littérature Mathew Staunton (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs – ENSAD), responsable civilisation Joana Etchart (université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour), responsable civilisation Valérie Morisson (université de Bourgogne), responsable arts visuels Thierry Robin (université de Bretagne occidentale), responsable des comptes rendus Comité scientifique Il s’agit d’un conseil de revue composé de trois sous-comités : • Comité de direction Catherine Maignant, Christophe Gillissen, Wesley Hutchinson, Pascale Amiot, Anne-Catherine de Bouvier, Françoise Canon-Roger, Karin Fischer, Yann Bevant. • Comité consultatif Kevin Barry (NUI Galway), Fabrice Bensimon (Sorbonne Université), Michael Bøss (Aarhus Universitet), Fabienne Dabrigeon (professeure émérite, université Lille 3), Philippe Cauvet (université de Poitiers), Noreen Doody (St Patrick’s College DCU), Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool), Maurice Elliott (York University, Toronto), Claude Fierobe (professeur honoraire, université de Reims Champagne- Ardenne), Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin), Roy Foster (Hertford Col- lege, Oxford), Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Dalarna University), Anne Goarzin (univer- sité Rennes 2), Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin), Richard Kearney (Boston College), Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame), Filomena Louro (Universidade do Minho, Braga), Eamon Maher (Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin), Sylvie Mikowski (université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne), Clíona Ní Ríordáin (univer- sité Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Mervyn O’Driscoll (University College Cork), Manuela Palacios (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Michael Parker (University of Central Lancashire), Ondrej Pilny (Univerzita Karlova, Prague), Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University), Christelle Serée-Chaussinand (université de Dijon), David Shaw (University of Liverpool), Alexandra Slaby (université de Caen Normandie). • Représentants des unités de recherche Alexandra Poulain (université Lille 3), Martine Pelletier (université Lille 3), Bertrand Cardin (université de Caen Normandie), Carle Bonafous-Murat (université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Maryvonne Boisseau (université de Strasbourg), Stéphane Jousni (université Rennes 2). Sommaire Catherine Conan et Flore Coulouma : Introduction . 7 Marjan Shokouhi : Despirited Forests, Deforested Landscapes : The Historical Loss of Irish Woodlands. 17 Nolwena Monnier : Nommer la nature : toponymie de la nature dans la Topographia Hibernica de Gerald of Wales. 31 Marie Mianowski : Digging the Borderland in Brian McGilloway’s The Nameless Dead (2012). 47 Florence Schneider : Geomantic de Paula Meehan ou comment lire et dire la nature . 57 Manuela Palacios : Relational Difference in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry : An Ecocritical Approach. 73 Tom Herron et Anna Pilz : Cursed to the Trees, Enchanted by the Woods : Sweeney Astray 8 7 Maryvonne Boisseau et Marion Naugrette-Fournier : Derek Mahon’s Geopoetic Horizons . 101 Yvonne Scott : Living Water : Irish Artists and Ecology. 117 Poems by Mary O’Donnell . 133 Comptes rendus | Book reviews. 137 Notes sur les auteurs | Notes on contributors . 163 Introduction The Emerald Isle, for all her lush pastures and forty shades of green, proved relatively impervious to environmental pursuits in the cultural and academic spheres or in economic and social circles, until the fall of the Celtic Tiger. The Celtic Tiger years successfully relied on, and reflected, a dual picture of global business attractiveness and unspoiled nature, promoting the pure waters of Green Erin – together with its fiscal leniency – as the ideal setting for pharmaceutical and IT companies and a unique location for salmon fishing. “Nature”, as a focal point in the stereo- typical representations of Ireland – together with rain, leprechauns, and the modest shamrock of Saint Patrick fame –, is perpetuated at home and abroad as part of the nation’s brand. Thus Ireland’s totemic colour conveniently contributes to the country’s perceived closeness with the natural environment. Only after the fall of the Celtic Tiger did another landscape begin to emerge: that of a dilapidated, polluted environment, symbolized with striking effect by the mushrooming “ghost estates” that now scar the Irish countryside and suburban areas. Such visions of the New Ireland reflect the concrete, geographic impact of post-industrial late capitalism, thus placing Ireland onto a global map of environmental crises and largely debunking a myth that is still desperately advertised by the national tourism industry today. In this context of growing environmental concern, while the successive governments’ neoliberal agenda continues unabated, the past decade has seen a proliferation of academic works examining Irish cultural production from an ecocritical perspective. First heralded by Oona Frawley’s study of Irish pastoral in the 20th century 1, then spurred by American scholars already familiar with the environmental humanities 2, Irish ecocritical studies have now taken hold in the country’s academic circles 3. The present issue of Études irlandaises brings together Irish, French and international scholars to contribute to what has become a globally thriving academic debate. Historically, two conflicting visions of Irish nature coexist. On the one hand, a peaceful Irish pastoralism grounded in (credulous) Catholicism and tinged 1. Oona Frawley, Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and Twentieth-Century Irish Literature, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2005. 2. Tim Wenzell, Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009; Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, Christine Cusick (ed.), Cork, Cork University Press, 2010. 3. See for instance Eóin Flannery, “Ireland and Ecocriticism: An Introduction” in the special issue of The Journal of Ecocriticism, vol. 5, no. 2, 2013, Irish Ecocriticism, p. 1, and, by the same author, Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice, London, Routledge, 2015. See also Donna L. Potts, Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism: The Wearing of the Deep Green, London, Palgrave, 2018. Études irlandaises,
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