Green Nation
Subtitle: the Irish Environmental Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5
Series: Ecopolitics Series Volume 2
Publisher: Greenhouse Press & Choice Publishing
Published: July 2006
Place of publication: Drogheda, Ireland
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781905451111
Subjects: Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; Ireland
Genres: Green politics, social movements, community development
First sentence: While many continue to debate the issues surrounding environmental disputes, communities remain committed to defending their hinterlands at risk.
Description: This book examines the social history underlying key events in the emergence of the Irish environmental movement over fourty years. From the "No Nukes" protests of the late 1970s through to the community campaign in the western region of Rossport in Mayo against an onshore pipeline and terminal, a series of social movements have emerged, based on what the author describes as an inherently derived form of 'rural sentiment'. What has resulted is an ongoing contestation between locally held moral and social valuations of community and environment by communities who  oppose the infrastructural projects of corporate entities or the state across the green fields and towns of Ireland.