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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