Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword by John Wilson Foster xiii
4. Preface xvii
5. Part I: Early Irish Nature Poetry Introduction to Part I Introduction to Part I
6. Introduction to Part I 3
7. The Mystery 6
8. Deer’s Cry or St. Patrick’s Breastplate 7
9. St. Columcille of Iona 9
10. Caelius Sedulius 11
11. Anonymous Early Irish Nature Poetry 13
12. Notes to Part I 71
13. Part II: Nature Writing and the Changing Irish Landscape
14. Introduction to Part II 75
15. Thomas Gainsford 78
16. William Allingham 83
17. William Hamilton Drummond 88
18. James Clarence Mangan 96
19. William Makepeace Thackeray 100
20. William Carleton 103
21. Emily Lawless 110
22. Notes to Part II 115
23. Part III: Nature and the Irish Literary Revival
24. Introduction to Part III 121
25. Æ (George William Russell) 129
26. William Butler Yeats 144
27. Eva Gore-Booth 156
28. John Millington Synge 160
29. George Augustus Moore 174
30. Padraic Colum 186
31. Notes to Part III 190
32. Part IV: Modern Irish Nature Poetry
33. Introduction to Part IV 195
34. Patrick Kavanaugh 197
35. Louis MacNeice 202
36. Seamus Heaney 205
37. Eavan Boland 208
38. Moya Cannon 214
39. John Montague 220
40. Michael Longley 225
41. Derek Mahon 231
42. Seán Lysaght 238
43. Desmond Egan 243
44. Mary O’Malley 248
45. Rosemarie Rowley 253
46. Notes to Part IV 256
47. Part V: The Literature of Irish Naturalists
48. Introduction to Part V 261
49. John Tyndall 266
50. Robert Lloyd Praeger 299
51. Michael Viney 306
52. Tim Robinson 321
53. John Moriarty 339
54. Notes to Part V 348
55. Appendix: Environmental Organizations in Ireland 351
56. Acknowledgments 353
57. Bibliography 355
58. Index 359