A History of Irish Forestry

This comprehensive study, with a foreword by Lord Killanin, looks at Irish forestry from the migration of the first wood species some 10,000 years ago to the present day.

Part One, The Historical Background, examines the primeval forest and e...

Engaging Spaces: People, Place and Space from an Irish Perspective

The world around us is changing more rapidly than at any previous point in the history of humankind. Even a casual recollection of the world we lived in one, two or more decades ago, highlights the profound changes which have been wrought in a short time-s...

Helen Rock's Irish Gardening

Helen Rock, whose column in The Sunday Tribune features the finest garden writing to be found in Ireland, has gathered and adapted the best of those essays into a volume that will immediately establish itself as the Irish gardener's most useful, and readab...

Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage: Selected Writings

Henry Glassie, in his Foreword, describes Estyn Evans, the great geographer-historian of Belfast, as 'one in a tiny aristocracy of the mind who created the intellectual world we in...

Nature Guide to the Aran Islands

This consummate description of the wildlife of the Aran Islands - its flora, fauna, geology and climate - is by an expert intimately familiar with the landscape. The outcome of lifelong study and observation, it condenses key facts from the writings on Ara...

Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History

How has Irish nature been studied? How has it been expressed in literature and popular culture? How has it influenced, and been influenced by, political, economic and social change? Th...

Trees of Ireland

This elegant volume celebrates, and documents, over thirty native and naturalized trees. Individual trees are depicted in pencil silhouette, and watercolours detail mature foliage, flowers, and fruit.

The accompanying text includes botanical ...

Weather Eye

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation - the lingua franca of country - and townspersons everywhere...