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Chapter 8 - You Have Gas: Reading for Irish Energy

from Part II - Planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2024

By
Michael Rubenstein
Edited by
Cóilín Parsons
Cóilín Parsons
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

What happens when we read the Irish literary canon for energy? We find numerous mentions of wind power, solar power, petrol, coal, peat, gas, and dung, and we find these energy resources and infrastructures trellised into plot lines and character arcs in some unexpected ways in Irish literature, from Joyce and Beckett to Heaney and McCormack. What emerges is a partial but suggestive cognitive map – of Irish energy economies, ecologies, and phenomenologies – that reveals Ireland’s unique energy signature and at the same time links Ireland to other imperial and global regimes of petromodernity.

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energypetromodernitypeatturfbogclimate changefossil fuelsoilgassmellJoyceBeckettHeaneyMcCormack
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Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture , pp. 151 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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