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This chapter outlines the range of periglacial and paraglacial processes, landforms and sediments that have impacted the Irish landscape. Since an earlier review that dealt solely with periglacial features, recent work has extended the range of landforms and has sought to place them on sounder stratigraphical, chronological and climatological foundations. Paraglacial processes are also now recognised as an important driver of landscape change and a variety of features are so ascribed, including some that were previously regarded as periglacial. Compared to some neighbouring landmasses where periglacial and paraglacial features have been widely researched, there are still relatively few detailed reports from Ireland. Nevertheless, of the studies conducted it is apparent that the morphological variation, geographical distribution and contribution to landscape character made by these features has the potential for extending understanding of formative processes and palaeoclimate.

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I thank Kilian McDaid for producing the diagrams and Colin Ballantyne, Pete Coxon Jasper Knight and the late Peter Vincent for providing photographs as credited; all other photographs are by the author. Stephan Harrison provided useful comments on the text.

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Wilson, P. (2017). Periglacial and Paraglacial Processes, Landforms and Sediments. In: Coxon, P., McCarron, S., Mitchell, F. (eds) Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies. Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science , vol 1. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-219-9_8

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