This lovely book is passionately written by an experienced planner living in the west of Ireland. It is well written, deeply informed by the author's personal experiences and beautifully illustrated with high-quality colour photographs, mainly by the author. Having myself lived and worked in Ireland since the early 1990s, I was struck in many ways that the author's analysis and commentary correspond to my own. I have visited many of the places illustrated here and can testify personally to the accuracy of his analysis, especially regarding the rapidity of change since the early 1990s. Our point of departure, perhaps, is his clear preference for a different relationship between Irish society and landscapes and my more accepting perspective on these diverse and at times fraught relationships.
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