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232 Landscape and Society in Contemporary Ireland 31 Fintan O’Toole, Black Hole Green Card: The Disappearance of Ireland (Dublin: New Ireland Books, 1994). 32 Fintan O’Toole, ‘State needs to clean up its act’ in The Irish Times, 19 June 2007. 33 Heritage Council, Proposals for Ireland’s Landscapes (Kilkenny: Heritage Council, 2010). 34 Michel Peillon, ‘State and Society in the Republic of Ireland: A Comparative Study’, Administration (1987). 35 Jim Kelly of National Parks and Wildlife Service, presentation to Irish Planning Institute Autumn Conference, November 2009. 36 Gordon Deegan, ‘Lecture warns of collapse of Irish Agriculture’, a report of Conor Skehan’s lecture at the Burren Law School, The Irish Times, 2 May 2004. 37 Irish Uplands Council, Challenges, Changes and Opportunities in Irish Uplands, Research project by Zena Hoctor for the Irish Uplands Council, 2009. 38 Pers. Comm., 2011. 39 Michael Viney, ‘People in their Place’, in Burren Insight, no. 3 (2011), pp. 4–5. 40 Starrett, ‘The Burren: A New Dawn?’ 41 Eileen O’Rourke, ‘Landscape Planning and Community Participation: Local Lessons from Mullaghmore, the Burren National Park, Ireland’, Landscape Research, vol. 30, no. 4 (2005), p. 496. 42 Han Lorzing, The Nature of Landscape: A Personal Quest (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001). 43 Ibid. 44 Ibid., p. 169. 45 Environmental Protection Agency, Bogland: Sustainable Management of Peatlands in Ireland. a STRIVE report by UCD for the EPA (Wexford: EPA, 2011). 46 Quoted in David Hickie, Native Trees and Forests of Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2002). 47 Gordon Cherry, National Parks and Recreation in the Countryside (London: HMSO, 1975) cited in MacEwen and MacEwen, National Parks: Conservation or Cosmetics?, p. 7. INDEX Aalen, F.H.A. 122–3 Abbeville, Co Dublin 128 ‘Achill Henge’ 129, 131 Achill Island, Co Mayo 114, 116, 128–31, 129 Adamstown, Dublin 122 aesthetic necessity 136–7 agricultural landscapes 9, 51, 57, 140–42, 141 agriculture 20, 27, 41, 51, 55, 57–8, 59–60, 96, 115–16,190, 191–2, 202 agri-tourism 108 Aherlow Valley, Co Tipperary 94 Ahern, Bertie 80, 82–3, 102 Allihies, Co Cork 130 angling 51–2 Anneville, Co Clare 23, 23–4 Antrim coast 40, 147, 205 Aran Islands 34, 115, 134, 138 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) 146, 196 Armstrong, John 136 art 7, 114, 117, 136–8, 142 Ashbourne Holdings 98 Athleague, Co Roscommon 82 avocet 70 Avonmore, Co Wicklow 205 Ballina, Co Mayo 117 Ballina, Co Tipperary 5 Ballinaboy, Co Mayo 12, 93, 93–4 Ballinskelligs Bay, Co Kerry 19 Ballycroy National Park, Co Mayo 163–5, 164, 165, 166, 195 Ballymun, Dublin 106, 106, 121, 122 Ballysadare, Co Sligo 112, 112–13 Ballyseedy Wood, Co Kerry 29 Ballyvaughan, Co Clare 10, 56, 58, 202 Bannon, Michael 85 Barcelona 86 bardic culture 19 Barker, F.D. 52 Barrow, River 37 basalt 40 Beara Peninsula, Co Cork 61, 133–4 beauty 133–51, 135, 137, 157–8, 161–3, 166–7 bee orchid 52 Belfast 205 Bellacorrick, Co Mayo 155 Bellingham, John 151 Bend in the Boyne, Co Meath 195, 198 Biophilia Hypothesis 32–3 birds 51, 70, 200 Birr, Co Offaly 52 Bishop’s Quarter, Co Clare 52 Bissett, Stephaney 181 Blanchardstown, Dublin 107, 121 blanket bogs 42, 42, 43, 44, 45; see also boglands boglands 42–5, 56–7, 70, 162, 198, 204; see also blanket bogs; mountain bogs; raised bogs Boland, Kevin 82 Book of Aran 115 Bord Fáilte see Fáilte Ireland Bord na Móna 56, 106 Bord Pleanála, An 74, 75, 77–8, 86–8, 94, 98, 150, 154, 163 Borgman, Albert 158 Bourke, Simon 78–80 Boyne Valley 195, 198, 205 Brady, Cyprian 82–3 Bray Head, Co Dublin 39, 149, 197–8 Britain 27, 40, 69–70, 80, 96, 101, 103, 105, 120, 121, 195–6; see also England; Scotland; Wales Brittan, Gordon 158, 166–7 Brody, Hugh 19 Bronze Age 24–5, 41 Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 144 brown trout 52 Buchanan, Colin 174 Buncrana, Co Donegal 156, 180, 180 Burren, Co Clare 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 15–16, 28, 37, 41, 46, 56, 58–61, 74, 76–80, 88, 94, 109, 122, 123, 133, 135, 157, 188, 189, 189–91, 191, 198, 200, 201–3 Burren Action Group (BAG) 4, 76–8, 79 Burren Connect 190, 201 Burren Ecotourism Network 190 Burren Farming for Conservation Programme 190 Burren Perfumery 203 Burrenbeo 190, 201–2 Bushe, Paddy 19 Butler, Pierce 124 butterflies 78 bypasses 74 Caherciveen, Co Kerry 68, 69...