Unfolding Irish Landscapes

Derek Gladwin is SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British ColumbiaChristine Cusick is an Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University

‘Robinson comes across not only as a brilliant storyteller and interpreter of the landscape but also as intensely human. Thus, the contributors to Unfolding Irish Landscapes mirror Robinson’s own practice: just as he unfolds the Irish landscape, revealing its history to his readers, so, too, do these scholars reveal Robinson to us.’Leila Crawford, University of Otago, Irish Studies Review, Issue 24.4, November 2016‘The volume is an impressive, ambitious and timely endeavor to chart the depth and range of the career of one of the most influential and original figures in the field of Irish Studies and the philosophy of landscape.’Anne Karhio, National University of Ireland, Nordic Irish Studies

• Foreword – Robert MacfarlaneIntroduction: Ireland’s ‘ABC of earth wonders’ – Christine Cusick and Derek GladwinPart 1: Explorations in cartography and geography1. Genius loci: the geographical imagination of Tim Robinson – Patrick Duffy2. Catchments – John Elder3. ‘The fineness of things’: the deep mapping projects of Tim Robinson’s art and writings, 1969-1972 – Nessa Cronin4. Documentary map-making and film-making in Pat Collins’ Tim Robinson: Connemara – Derek GladwinPart 2: Topographic writing and narrative5. ‘And now intellect, discovering its own effects’: Tim Robinson as narrative scholar – Christine Cusick6. Not-knowing as aesthetic imperative in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran – Kelly Sullivan7. Thirteen ways of looking at a landscape: the poetic in the work of Tim Robinson – Moya Cannon8. Tim Robinson and Chris Arthur: in defence of the Irish essay – Karen BabinePart 3: Place and the Irish cultural imagination9. ‘But his study is out of doors’: Tim Robinson’s place in Irish studies – Eamonn Wall10. Maps, movements, and migrants: reading Tim Robinson though Gluaiseacht Chearta Sibhialta na Gaeltachta – Jerry White11. ‘About nothing, about everything’: listening in / to Tim Robinson – Gerry Smyth12. ‘another half-humanized boulder lying on unprofitable ground’: the visual art of Tim Robinson/Timothy Drever – Catherine Marshall13. ‘An ear to the earth’: matrixial gazing in Tim Robinson’s walk-art-text practice – Moynagh Sullivan14. Essayist of place: postcolonialism and ecology in the work of Tim Robinson – Eóin FlanneryEpilogue: On the rocks road – Andrew McNeillieBibliographyIndex