Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change
inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?Climate and
Society in Ireland is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal
Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period, interdisciplinary
perspective on one of the most important challenges currently facing
humanity. Combining syntheses of existing knowledge with new insights
and approaches, contributors explore the varied environmental, climatic
and social changes that occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the
early 21st century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of
pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the earliest
human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food scarcities during
medieval times that led to violence and plague outbreaks; changing
representations of weather in poetry written in Ireland between 1600 and
1820; and how Ireland is now on the threshold of taking the radical
steps necessary to shed its 'climate laggard' status and embark on the
road to a post-carbon society.With contributions by Máire Ní Annracháin,
Katharina Becker, David M. Brown, Lucy Collins, Lisa Coyle McClung,
Bruce M.S. Campbell, Rosie Everett, Benjamin Gearey, Raymond Gillespie,
Seren Griffiths, James Kelly, Francis Ludlow, Meriel McClatchie, Conor
Murphy, Simon Noone, Aaron Potito, Gill Plunkett, Phil Stastney, Graeme
T. Swindles, John Sweeney, Graeme Warren.
