Acknowledgements ix; Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Carmen Zamorano Llena -- Introduction: The Urban and the Rural in the Irish Collective Imaginary 1; Part I Landscapes and Language 15; Raymond Hickey -- Rural and Urban Ireland: A Question of Language? 17; Kevin McCafferty -- Belfastards and Derriers -- Culchies at Heart? -- Urban and Rural Influences in Northern Irish English 39; Part II -- Landscapes and Cultural Change 65; Kieran Keohane -- Ireland's Haunted Landscape: From the Deserted Homes of the 'Faithful Departed' to the Post-Celtic Tiger Social Desert 67
Catherine Nash -- 'But the Land Itself Does Not Really Change': Diasporic Negotiations of Ancestral Connection and Dif ference in Ireland 89Part III -- Reimagining Literary Landscapes 107; Britta Olinder -- The Glens of Antrim and the Streets of Belfast in John Hewitt's Poetry 109; Hedda Friberg-Harnesk -- Between 'Pavements Grey' and Nature's Shades of Green: Rural and Urban Landscapes in Liam O'Flaherty's Novels 129; Poems by Moya Cannon 151; Hands 153; Little Skellig 155; Loch 154; Part IV -- Poetic Landscapes 157
Irene Gilsenan Nordin -- 'The Habits of Attention': Landscape and Place. An Interview with Moya Cannon 159Anne Karhio -- The City in a Raindrop: The Urban Ecology of Paula Meehan 169; Part V -- Domestic and Urban Landscapes 185; Taffy Martin -- 'Churning Land to Liquid': Landscape and Memory in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 187; Katharina Walter -- 'Lilac Rooting in the Coldest Part of Ocean': The Topography of Maternity in Eavan Boland's Domestic Violence 201; Contributors 219; Index 225
