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Posted on June 8, 2019June 8, 2019

“The decline of industries left woodland open to destruction” – Oliver Rackham on how industry saves woodland

That the natural world is rarely entirely “natural” is a bit of a truism, one I’ve reflecting on since reading “Curlew Moon” by Mary Colwell. It is tempting to idolise “wild…

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Posted on May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

David Monacchi: “Fragments of Extinction”, the sounds of vanishing nature

With the prospect of mass extinction in the news, it seems a good time to reflect on the loss of soundscapes. In Ireland, the corncrake and the curlew were once…

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Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

Shrewstruck

From “The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names” by John Wright   It may sound extraordinary, but until recently the shrew had a most fearsome reputation.…

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Posted on September 21, 2018September 11, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 21st – the red squirrel

OK, this entry in my September series of species rendered extinct in Ireland since human settlement here may cause many readers to do a double-take. The red squirrel? Extinct? But…

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Posted on June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

No green to be seen 2: “Dead From the Neck Down” in Wales

In September 2016 I posted “No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon” about the void that was a conifer plantation on Slievenamon. David Elias, at his blog Dispatches from…

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Posted on May 18, 2018May 15, 2018

Denise Levertov, “Conversion of Brother Lawrence”

I particularly love the lines “your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant” – which neatly summarises Brother Lawrence’s way of deceptive…

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Posted on May 15, 2018May 13, 2018

February, Cheesemount, Tipperary

Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.

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Posted on September 3, 2017June 24, 2018

200 Years of Tipperary’s Lost and Found Wellington Monument 

Along the Grange Crag Loop walk,near the village of Grange in the Slieveardagh Hills, one comes across an arresting monument built two hundred years ago. Almost unbelievably (when you contemplate…

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