This book examines how the Irish environmental movement which began gaining momentum in the
1970s has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers artists and musicians.
It examines Irish environmental writing music and art within their cultural contexts
considers how postcolonial ecocriticism might usefully be applied to Ireland and analyzes the
rhetoric of Irish environmental protests. It places the Irish environmental movement within the
broader contexts of Irish national and postcolonial discourses focusing on the following
protests: the M3 Motorway the Burren campaign the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear protest Shell
to Sea the turf debate and the animal rights movement.
