Abstract
Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats … examines the psychological, cultural, and environmental importance of bogs to Irish collective consciousness. My essay offers a detailed look into the history of Irish boglands from an ecocritical point of view, and argues that these landscapes are not peripheral, but actually central to Irish studies and the environments in which Irish literature unfolds. Bogs have existed on the margins of society and have been home to many dispossessed peoples, discourses, spirits, and histories. Ultimately, I argue that By the Bog of Cats … addresses these unresolved dimensions of the bog geography and provides surprisingly fertile ground to explore literary and environmental relationships, conjuring ancient mythic associations, long histories of abuse and neglect, and modern psychological metaphors.
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