ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to coalesce debates through a number of environmental concepts including the land ethic, the tragedy of the commons, biophilia, and topophilia, while foregrounding how these concepts and local Irish tensions are played out through nation's films. While only a small start has been made with such examples, effective engagement with place and promoting critical representations of Irish energy landscapes are needed more than ever. Both nation's and multinationals films in different ways call attention to the economic importance of land and ownership, while testing differing models of environmental stewardship and people being rooted on the land while earning a living. The Irish preoccupation and even fixation with land has been augmented by a long and troubled history as a British colony and as a contested space where her people fought for hundreds of years to regain sovereignty and ownership of the land.
