Irish Heritage: The Landscape, The People And Their Work
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 6th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of landscape, labour, and identity stands Irish Heritage: The Landscape, The People and Their Work — a magisterial study of Ireland's countryside and the communities that shaped and were shaped by it. Written by Emyr Estyn Evans, Professor of Geography at Queen's University Belfast and one of the twentieth century's foremost cultural geographers, this work chronicles the intricate relationship between the Irish land and its people across centuries of habitation, toil, and tradition. With his own illustrations enriching the text, Evans presents a vivid portrait of rural Ireland — its bogs, farmsteads, field patterns, and coastal edges — as living testimony to human endurance and ingenuity. Evans argues that the Irish landscape is not merely a backdrop to history but its very medium, inscribed with the marks of generations of anonymous labour and cultural continuity. Drawing on geography, archaeology, and folk tradition, the work stands as a founding text of Irish cultural geography, anticipating later scholarship in landscape studies and material culture. Evans's prose is precise yet deeply empathetic, rendering scholarly insight accessible without sacrificing rigour — a rare achievement that leaves the reader questioning just how much of themselves a people leaves written in the land beneath their feet.
Author: E. Estyn Evans
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk
Genre: British & Irish history
Edition: 6th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
At the crossroads of landscape, labour, and identity stands Irish Heritage: The Landscape, The People and Their Work — a magisterial study of Ireland's countryside and the communities that shaped and were shaped by it. Written by Emyr Estyn Evans, Professor of Geography at Queen's University Belfast and one of the twentieth century's foremost cultural geographers, this work chronicles the intricate relationship between the Irish land and its people across centuries of habitation, toil, and tradition. With his own illustrations enriching the text, Evans presents a vivid portrait of rural Ireland — its bogs, farmsteads, field patterns, and coastal edges — as living testimony to human endurance and ingenuity. Evans argues that the Irish landscape is not merely a backdrop to history but its very medium, inscribed with the marks of generations of anonymous labour and cultural continuity. Drawing on geography, archaeology, and folk tradition, the work stands as a founding text of Irish cultural geography, anticipating later scholarship in landscape studies and material culture. Evans's prose is precise yet deeply empathetic, rendering scholarly insight accessible without sacrificing rigour — a rare achievement that leaves the reader questioning just how much of themselves a people leaves written in the land beneath their feet.