HÉLÈNE ALFAROLecturer at the Université Paris Est- Créteil Val de Marne, France
LAURY-NURIA ANDRÉPostgraduate student in Greek, Latin and the classical world
FIONN BENNETTSenior lecturer at the University of Reims, France
GERRY CAHILLArchitect, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland and Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland
PHILIPPE CAUVET Senior lecturer at the Université of Poitiers, France
MARIE-CLAIRE CONSIDÈRE-CHARONProfessor Emeritus at the University of Franche-Comté, France
CATHERINE CROCHETChoreographer and Performing Artist
NESSA CRONINLecturer in Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
EMILE-JEAN DUMAYSpecialist of Drama Studies and Translator
CHRISTIAN GIRIATArtistic Manager of the Théâtre Mobile in Lyons, France
CATHERINE GROUTProfessor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage in Lille, France
DENIS HAMONFormer Postgraduate student at University College Dublin, Ireland
JOANNA KRUCZKOWSKALecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland
JAMES MCCABEGraduate from the University of Maynooth, Ireland
CATHAL MCCALLSenior Lecturer in European Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
FIONA MCCANN Lecturer at the Université de Lille 3, France
SYLVIE MIKOWSKIProfessor of Irish Studies at the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, France
PAULA MURPHYLecturer in Art History atUCD, Ireland
BRENDAN O'SULLIVANDirector of the Programme in Planning and Sustainable Development at UCC and Visiting Academic at Université de Bretagne Occidentale at Brest, France
KAREN RAYPhD researcher in the Programme in Planning and Sustainable Development at University College Cork, Ireland
STEPHANIE SCHWERTERTeacher ofcomparative literature at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France
YVONNE SCOTTDirector of TRIARC, the Irish Art Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
MICHAEL STARRETTChief Executive of the Heritage Council of Ireland
MATHEW STAUNTONAssociate Fellow of the The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media Research, Ireland
JACKIE WHELAN PhD candidate under the Walsh Fellowship Scheme with Teagasc and UCD, Ireland

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Mianowski PART I: BIRTH OF THE IRISH LANDSCAPE AND THE MYTH OF LOSS From Ancient Geographers to the Journey of the Argonauts: Ierne Island (Ireland), a Landscape Island Between Two Worlds; L.André Landscape, Senchas and the Medieval Irish Mind; D.Hamon Translating the Facts of Landscape into the Facts of Language: Ethnoecological Ruminations on Glossopoiesis in Early Ireland; F.Bennett Language and Landscapes of Ireland; J.McCabe PART II: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY MYTHS Derek Mahon's Seascapes Mediated through Greece: Antiquity in Modernity, Nature in Abstraction; J.Kruczkowska Fictionalising Division: The Urban Landscapes of Belfast, Beirut and Berli; S.Schwerter 'The post-past city': Apocalyptic Cityscapes and Cultural Stagnation in the Fiction of Sean O'Reilly; F.McCann Lived and Learned Landscapes: Literary Geographies and the Irish Topographical Tradition; N.Cronin Landscapes in Movement: Cosmopolitanism and the Poetics of Space in Colum McCann's Fiction; S.Mikowski PART III: BORDERSCAPING Monumental Landscapes: Riding the Boundaries of an Independent Ireland with the Early Sinn Féin Movement; M.Staunton Irish Nationalism and the Natural Insular Landscape of Ireland Before Partition: Insularity Versus the Wishes of the Inhabitants; P.Cauvet The Irish Border as a Cultural Landscape; C.McCall Rural Development in the Border Areas: From 'borderscaping' to Cross-border Planning; M.C.Considère-Charon PART IV: LOCAL HERITAGE AND GLOBAL SPEED The Altered Edge. The Impact of the Construction Boom on the Landscape of the Urban Periphery; G.Cahill Our landscape, Our Heritage - Building Toward a New Legislative Approach to Empower Local Communities; M.Starrett Standardizing Terminology for Landscape Categorisation - an Irish Agri-environment Perspective; J.Whelan et al The Metropolitan Cork Green Belt: Synergies and Tensions Between Strategic and Local Understandings ofLandscape Value; B.O'Sullivan & K.Ray PART V: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS AND CREATIONS: THE CHALLENGE OF ART The Renaissance of the Forest in Contemporary Art in Ireland; Y.Scott The Geography of the Place in Doherty's Work; C.Grout Sculpture in the Irish Landscape; P.Murphy Transforming the City: The Stakes of Cultural and Artistic Landscaping in Post Conflict Belfast; H.Alfaro Ballymun in Dermot Bolger's Plays: Beyond the Urban Landscape; E.Dumay Belfast: An Eyeless City; C.Crochet & C.Giriat Index