Learn about farming on peat soils, bog plants and wildlife, plus meet like-minded people from your local area. We will hear from FarmPEAT project farmers, who are receiving results-based payments for their habitat quality, and Umeras Community Development, who are working to develop an Umeras Peatlands Park. Representatives from other nearby community groups will also […]
Tina Claffey is an award-winning nature photographer & author of ‘Tapestry of Light’ and ‘Portal-Otherworldly Wonders of Ireland’s Bogs, Wetlands and Eskers’ Tina specialises in extreme close-up macro photography, which allows her to explore the unseen ancient wilderness within the bog’s living carpet that can easily be overlooked by the passer by. Lichens become enchanted […]
The Brackna Turf Cooperative and a forgotten film from 1921. In 1921 Gordon Lewis, Pathé’s newsreel cameraman in Ireland, joined Desmond Fitzgerald Minister for Publicity in the First Dáil, and others, to make a film about the efforts of the Brackna Turf Cooperative to raise funds by selling sods of turf in America. The film […]
