Restoration & Hope, Sunday, 13th October at 10:30am, Ballycommon Hall, Tickets €15
This event brings together nature writer Eoghan Daltun and poet Jane Clarke to explore the connecting themes of restoration and hope in their work.
On the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. It is the life work of Eoghan Daltun, who had a vision to rewild and restore a 73-acre farm he bought, moving there from Dublin with his family in 2009. His first book, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest charts that remarkable journey. His new book, The Magic of an Irish Rainforest, chronicles how in 2023, he travelled the length and breadth of Ireland photographing areas of temperate rainforest, in a bid to illustrate their beauty and immense ecological value, and to document, in almost all cases, their state of decline.
Jane Clarke’s most recent collection A Change in The Air is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present reverberate with courage and resilience in the face of poverty, prejudice, war and exile and the everyday losses of living.