This book examines the social history underlying key events in the emergence of the Irish environmental movement over fourty years. From the "No Nukes" protests of the late 1970s through to the community campaign in the western region of Rossport in Mayo against an onshore pipeline and terminal, a series of social movements have emerged, based on what the author describes as an inherently derived form of 'rural sentiment'. What has resulted is an ongoing contestation between locally held moral and social valuations of community and environment by communities who oppose the infrastructural projects of corporate entities or the state across the green fields and towns of Ireland.
- ISBN13 9781905451111
- Publish Date 1 July 2006
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Choice Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 292
- Language English