These Are My People Poetry Walking Tour BOOKED OUT

Join award-winning poet Breda Wall Ryan for a walk through the beautiful surrounds of the National Botanic Gardens, pausing along the way for poems from her third poetry collection These Are My People (Doire Press). In this collection Breda explores themes of family ties, relationships and one’s connection to the natural world, ultimately coming to […]

These Are My People Poetry Walking Tour BOOKED OUT

Published on 20 September 2023.

In Wild Ireland (The O’Brien Press), author and photographer Carsten Krieger takes us on a journey across Ireland to explore the nature we pass by every day, flying with our ocean birds to experience their ever-more challenging search for food, hearing the dawn chorus in Killarney, and looking closely at our hedgerows, home to countless […]

Wildlife Photography Walking Tour CANCELLED

Published on 20 September 2023.

The idea of ‘the wild’ has great power both to attract us, and to repel us – sometimes both at once. Before the Romantic movement, the term was mainly repellent in European literature, referring to ‘uncivilised’ lands and peoples, savage, dangerous and frightening places. The Romantics inverted this stereotype, seeing untamed and uncrowded nature as […]

The Naturalist’s Bookshelf – The ‘wild’ word in nature writing: shifting meanings, clashing responses

Published on 20 September 2023.