Matthew Kelly is Professor of Modern History at Northumbria University.

• IntroductionMatthew Kelly1. The Nature of Improvement in IrelandHelen O’Connell2. Palmerston’s Conquest of SligoDavid Brown3. ‘A Voice for Ireland’: Isaac Butt, Environmental Justice and the Dilemmas of the Irish Land QuestionColin W. Reid 4. ‘In the Open Country’: Nature and the Environment During the ‘Monster’ Meeting Campaign of 1843Huston Gilmore 5. Therapeutic Environments in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Hybrid Spaces and Practices Ronan Foley6. On Why the UK’s First National Park Might Have Been in IrelandMatthew Kelly7. Towards an Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century DublinJulianna Adelman8. Mainstream or Tributary? The Question of ‘Hibernian’ Fishes in William Thompson's The Natural History of Ireland (1856)Mary Orr9. The Ocean of Truth: Atlantic Imagery in Emily Lawless’s Major Lawrence FLS (1885) and Grania: The Story of an Island (1892)Patrick Maume10. Seumas O’Sullivan and Revivalist Nature PoetrySeán Hewitt

'Matthew Kelly has done an admirable job both in selecting high-quality essays and in assembling them into a coherent structure. His engaging introduction performs some heavy lifting, deftly summarizing ecocritical theory and Irish environmental history scholarship... Victorianists looking for an overview of Irish environmental scholarship, Kelly’s introduction will prove an invaluable read.' Siobhan Carroll, Victorian Studies

Matthew Kelly is Professor of Modern History at Northumbria University.

• IntroductionMatthew Kelly1. The Nature of Improvement in IrelandHelen O’Connell2. Palmerston’s Conquest of SligoDavid Brown3. ‘A Voice for Ireland’: Isaac Butt, Environmental Justice and the Dilemmas of the Irish Land QuestionColin W. Reid 4. ‘In the Open Country’: Nature and the Environment During the ‘Monster’ Meeting Campaign of 1843Huston Gilmore 5. Therapeutic Environments in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Hybrid Spaces and Practices Ronan Foley6. On Why the UK’s First National Park Might Have Been in IrelandMatthew Kelly7. Towards an Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century DublinJulianna Adelman8. Mainstream or Tributary? The Question of ‘Hibernian’ Fishes in William Thompson's The Natural History of Ireland (1856)Mary Orr9. The Ocean of Truth: Atlantic Imagery in Emily Lawless’s Major Lawrence FLS (1885) and Grania: The Story of an Island (1892)Patrick Maume10. Seumas O’Sullivan and Revivalist Nature PoetrySeán Hewitt

'Matthew Kelly has done an admirable job both in selecting high-quality essays and in assembling them into a coherent structure. His engaging introduction performs some heavy lifting, deftly summarizing ecocritical theory and Irish environmental history scholarship... Victorianists looking for an overview of Irish environmental scholarship, Kelly’s introduction will prove an invaluable read.' Siobhan Carroll, Victorian Studies

Matthew Kelly is Professor of Modern History at Northumbria University.

• IntroductionMatthew Kelly1. The Nature of Improvement in IrelandHelen O’Connell2. Palmerston’s Conquest of SligoDavid Brown3. ‘A Voice for Ireland’: Isaac Butt, Environmental Justice and the Dilemmas of the Irish Land QuestionColin W. Reid 4. ‘In the Open Country’: Nature and the Environment During the ‘Monster’ Meeting Campaign of 1843Huston Gilmore 5. Therapeutic Environments in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Hybrid Spaces and Practices Ronan Foley6. On Why the UK’s First National Park Might Have Been in IrelandMatthew Kelly7. Towards an Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century DublinJulianna Adelman8. Mainstream or Tributary? The Question of ‘Hibernian’ Fishes in William Thompson's The Natural History of Ireland (1856)Mary Orr9. The Ocean of Truth: Atlantic Imagery in Emily Lawless’s Major Lawrence FLS (1885) and Grania: The Story of an Island (1892)Patrick Maume10. Seumas O’Sullivan and Revivalist Nature PoetrySeán Hewitt

'Matthew Kelly has done an admirable job both in selecting high-quality essays and in assembling them into a coherent structure. His engaging introduction performs some heavy lifting, deftly summarizing ecocritical theory and Irish environmental history scholarship... Victorianists looking for an overview of Irish environmental scholarship, Kelly’s introduction will prove an invaluable read.' Siobhan Carroll, Victorian Studies