All September’s #ExtinctinIreland posts in one handy page
As demanded by absolutely no-one, here are all the posts I have done this month on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humanity…. Extinct in Ireland: September 1st,…
Tag: wolves
Extinct in Ireland: September 2, the wolf
Extinct in Ireland continues! From Padraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away” Wolf: Widespread and probably abundant in Ireland until a concerted extermination programme finished off the last one in the late 1700s. I…
Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!
The UN, no less, have declared 22nd May to be International Day for Biological Diversity! Normally I am pretty sceptical of these kinds of “official” days for this and that. However, they…
Review of Wolves in Ireland by Kieran Hickey, TLS, April 2012.
Going through my writings, I realise how little deals with something of great personal importance to me; nature and the natural world. Of course, semantic quibbling teaches us that “nature”…
Séamus Sweeney 