1. Promote and support the development of the requisite skills, knowledge and attitudes that help everyone to take action for a sustainable future and planet. 2. Explore the intertwining of sea and land in the Irish poetic tradition. 3. Discuss the infusion of Irish literature with what Montague (2009) referred to as global regionalism; the dialectic of ‘a sense of place and a sense of planet’ that characterises ecological thinking in the Anthropocene.