Ireland’s Invisible Rainforest

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    The mysterious past and precarious future of the Irish Atlantic Rainforest.

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    Sources/Further Reading:
    Hall – The Making of Ireland’s Landscape Since the Ice Age: https://tinyurl.com/5ayja8pt
    Viney – Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History: https://tinyurl.com/45cvz34r
    DellaSala – Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: https://link.springer.com/book/10.5822/978-1-61091-008-8
    Irish Wildlife Trust – Atlantic Rainforest: https://iwt.ie/episode-4-the-wild-atlantic-rainforest/
    Peatland Conservation Council – Raised Bogs: https://tinyurl.com/mvsr3kmj
    National Botanic Gardens – Bryophytes: https://tinyurl.com/3rdrp54w
    Botanical Society – Kerry Mousetail Fern: https://tinyurl.com/32j2xubx
    Irish Times – Ice Age Plant: https://tinyurl.com/erb7e2yt
    Montgomery – Origin of the Holocene Mammals of ‘These Islands.’ http://www.jstor.org/stable/24394331
    Woodman – Ireland’s Native Mammals: A Survey of the Archaeological Record: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24394323
    Mitchell – WHERE DID IRELAND’S TREES COME FROM? http://www.jstor.org/stable/20728598
    Biodiversity Ireland – Atlas of Mammals in Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/mpjy3v8f
    Vincent Wildlife Trust – Stoat: https://www.vincentwildlife.ie/species/irish-stoat
    Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre: https://tinyurl.com/h3sp9t3r
    National Museum of Ireland – Faddan More Psalter: https://tinyurl.com/yvphcyvy
    Montaño – Cultural Conflict and the Landscape of Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: http://www.jstor.org/stable/26333463
    Sands – Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/2ajzp76u
    Britannica – Irish War of Independence: https://tinyurl.com/ymj3yxkh
    Women’s Museum – Matilda Knowles: https://tinyurl.com/bdhtzwzy
    Dictionary of Irish Biography – Praeger: https://tinyurl.com/3p8yauuk
    Killarney National Park: https://www.nationalparks.ie/killarney/nature-conservation/
    Earth Observatory – Cutaway Peatlands: https://tinyurl.com/yt2yh88p
    Irish Examiner – Peat Harvest Ends: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40207565.html

    Maps/Graphics:
    British Library: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191735/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/157970/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/144020/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191882/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/176910/
    Peatland Conservation Council – Raised Bog Formation: https://tinyurl.com/4mxbcwsn
    Costello, Kelly – Biogeography of Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/mt44xrpr
    Ben and Alison Averis – A Provisional Definition of Temperate Rainforest in Britain and Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/bdhy22jk
    Edwards, Brooks – The Island of Ireland: Drowning the Myth of an Irish Land-Bridge? http://www.jstor.org/stable/20764499
    Clare Island: https://tinyurl.com/37wcjnxc

    Illustrations:
    Britsh Library: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/156139/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191891/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191892/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191587/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/181468/
    https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/155791/
    Giant Irish Deer: https://tinyurl.com/mjvpwrjv
    Kerry Slug: https://tinyurl.com/ypdkdhzm
    George Edwards – Smooth Newt
    Robert Brown – Peoples of the World, Vol 5
    Crannog: https://tinyurl.com/4tyhth9u
    Edward Mortlemans – Iron Age Trackway
    Norman Invasion Tapestry: https://tinyurl.com/5b98zh8m
    W.H. Bartlett – Carrickfergus Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
    Charles Whymper – Peat Cutting
    W.H. Bartlett: View of Torc Waterfall, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
    Derricke – The image of Irelande: https://archive.org/details/imageofirelandew00derr

    Photos:
    Praeger: https://tinyurl.com/56utdwrn

    Articles:
    Guardian – Kerry Mousetail Fern: https://tinyurl.com/yhhtfhtb
    Guardian – Faddan More Psalter: https://tinyurl.com/esyw9sbv
    The Journal – Eagle Reintroduction: https://tinyurl.com/3uwjbcdr
    BBC – Wolf Reintroduction: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl39xvdnljo
    Irish Times – Lynx Reintroduction: https://tinyurl.com/ytaz7s67

    Documents:
    Knowles – Lichens of Ireland: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20490349?seq=1
    Praeger – Irish Topographical Botany: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20488793?seq=1
    Irish Naturalist Journal: https://tinyurl.com/yxdxe32x

    0:00 – Intro
    1:59 – Landscape
    5:52 – Biogeography
    8:27 – sponsor
    10:39 – The First People
    11:48 – The Iron Age
    13:02 – The Early Christian Period
    14:03 – The Norman Invasion
    14:48 – The Tudor Invasion
    18:04 – Irish Independence
    21:15 – What Remains
    23:06 – Outro- Drawing the Line

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    27 Comments

    1. Good day sir! I too reside in Appalachia, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has a strong environmental graduate program and conservation work, some of which is centered around salamanders. There is a "Team Salamander" lab there that may be of interest to you. I was working on a LiDAR/Ecology/Geology Remote sensing project there for The timber rattlesnake (Crotallus horridus) and the Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus). The faculty there is very community and conservation focused, very approachable and focused on real impact and results to the area. I hope this helps!

    2. 25:19 please someone tell Me where This is ! I am a forestry (soon to be) graduate and i‘d love to finally work in Ireland! Pls help Me out it would absolutely make my day!!!

    3. I worked as a tour guide as a kid, we had scottish pines preserved in bogs so id tell the kids the could touch it and travel through time like it was a time Machine!!! This is so accurate, I lovw seeing the geographical take as i nornally take the historical. Amazingly done and so respectfully informative and very factual!!!

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