Secrets of the Irish landscape
Subtitle: the story of the Irish landscape is the story of Ireland
By: edited by Matthew Jebb with Colm Crowley
Contributors: Mooney, Derek
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cork, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781782050100
Subjects: Natural history; Landscapes; Botany; Historical geography; Description and travel
Description: In this book and television series Derek Mooney follows in the footsteps of one of Ireland's greatest scientists, Robert Lloyd Praeger. It examines many little understood aspects of the Irish landscape from the last Ice Age until now. Historians, archaeologists, biologists and earth scientists each bring their unique take on how the landscape and the life it supports have been crafted by natural and human events. Some of the great enigmas of the past are now being unravelled, and this book gives a fresh glimpse of how Ireland's unique and stunning ecosystem has evolved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Secrets of the Irish landsacpe / Matthew Jebb; title: The glacial landform system of the last Irish ice sheet / Paul Dunlop; title: Ireland under ice / Peter Coxon; title: Life in Ireland during the Ice Age / Conor Meade; title: In search of the origins of Ireland's Arctic and Mediterranean plants / Colin Kelleher; title: Our island coastline / Robin Edwards; title: The arrival of the first forests / Fraser Mitchell; title: The late comers: Ireland's Stone Age settlers / Peter Woodman; title: The Burren, north Clare: an exceptional landscape, a place apart / Michael O'Connell; title: Turloughs: vanishing lakes or vanishing fields? / Micheline Sheehy Skeffington; title: Cé́ide Fields: Europe's oldest surviving dairy fields? / Seamus Caulfield; title: The first farmers: who they were and how they lived / Michael Monk; title: Irish dendrochronology and the end of the Neolithic / Mike Baillie; title: The Cruel Goddess: death on the Boundary / Eamonn P. Kelly; title: Shadowland: the transition from bronze to iron and the emergence of Gaelic Ireland / Ronan O' Flaherty; title: A cross-carved landscape: the impact of Christianity / Tomás O Carragáin; title: The Viking impact / Stephen H. Harrison; title: Plant foods in Ireland before AD1500 / Regina Sexton; title: Dry stone walls / Patrick McAfee; title: The impact of the potato on the Irish landscape / Éanna Ni Lamhna; title: Early mapping in Ireland / Patrick Duffy; title: Paper landscapes: Ordinance Survey Ireland / Matthew Jebb; title: Famine and landscape / Richard Collins; title: Landscape and Irish identity / Peter Murray.