Rainy day funds should surely now take on a literal meaning given the climate’s tumultuous shifts and the reality that our greatest coastal tragedies may lie ahead of us
Rainy-day funds should surely take on a literal meaning given the climate’s tumultuous shifts and the reality that our greatest coastal tragedies may lie ahead of us
Visitors and writers captivated by the Irish coast have often commented on the coexistence of beauty and tragedy. It was both the harshness and softness that entranced playwright, for example, who first visited the Aran Islands in 1898. His time there generated a literary bounty; in his own words, this was because of “the continual passing between the misery of last night and the splendour of today ... the moods of varying rapture and dismay”.’s The Coastal Atlas of Ireland, published in 2021.
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter - A hugely valuable exploration of a rollercoaster time was established that year, and targets, plans and legislation have been elevated in the years since, but climate matters still do not generate the sort of urgency they so obviously require. We have endured weeks now of auction politics and dispiriting myopia. The discussion abouthighlights the continuity of this approach.
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