Unfolding Irish landscapes Tim Robinson, culture and environment [Hardcover]

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the award-winning work of cartographer and writer Tim Robinson. This book explores the process in which Robinson has addressed the historical and geographical tensions that suffuse the landscapes of Ireland. Robinson's distinctive methods of map-making and topographical writing capture the geographical and cultural consciousness of not only Ireland, but also of the entire North Atlantic archipelago. Through both topographic prose and cartography Robinson undertakes one of the greatest explorations of the Irish landscape by a single person in recent history, paralleling, if not surpassing, Robert Lloyd Praeger's extensive catalogue of writings and natural histories of western Ireland.

Foreword - Robert Macfarlane
Introduction: Ireland's 'ABC of earth wonders' - Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin
Part 1: Explorations in cartography and geography
1. Genius loci: the geographical imagination of Tim Robinson - Patrick Duffy
2. Catchments - John Elder
3. 'The fineness of things': the deep mapping projects of Tim Robinson's art and writings, 1969-1972 - Nessa Cronin
4. Documentary map-making and film-making in Pat Collins' Tim Robinson: Connemara - Derek Gladwin
Part 2: Topographic writing and narrative
5. 'And now intellect, discovering its own effects': Tim Robinson as narrative scholar - Christine Cusick
6. Not-knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson's Stones of Aran - Kelly Sullivan
7. Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape: the poetic in the work of Tim Robinson - Moya Cannon
8. Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur: in defence of the Irish essay - Karen Babine
Part 3: Place and the Irish cultural imagination
9. 'But his study is out of doors': Tim Robinson's place in Irish studies - Eal“Y