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On May 7, 2026, Lucy Collins of University College Dublin offered a response to Kate Huber’s new book, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland. Collins’s response contextualizes Huber’s analyses of broadcast, literary, and visual media in wider histories of technology, audience and readership, gender hierarchies, and geopolitical relations in Ireland over the past century. These contexts reveal, as Collins points out, how entangled land reform practices are in shaping political outcomes, cultural expression, and media engagement. Collins also asserts how Huber’s book exposes masculinist histories in ways that open possibilities for further research into intersections of colonialism and environment in Irish women’s cultural production over the past century. Ultimately, Collins explores how Irish Ecomedia offers new approaches that revise and expand established methods in ecocriticism and Irish studies for examining constructions of place and identity.
On May 7, 2026, Lucy Collins of University College Dublin offered a response to Kate Huber’s new book, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland. Collins’s response contextualizes Huber’s analyses of broadcast, literary, and visual media in wider histories of technology, audience and readership, gender hierarchies, and geopolitical relations in Ireland over the past century. These contexts reveal, as Collins points out, how entangled land reform practices are in shaping political outcomes, cultural expression, and media engagement. Collins also asserts how Huber’s book exposes masculinist histories in ways that open possibilities for further research into intersections of colonialism and environment in Irish women’s cultural production over the past century. Ultimately, Collins explores how Irish Ecomedia offers new approaches that revise and expand established methods in ecocriticism and Irish studies for examining constructions of place and identity.
