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Haumea 2021: Ecoliteracy learning for creatives and art professionals with Cathy Fitzgerald
Delighted to be be taking part in the Haumea 2021 ecoliteracy learning for creatives and art professionals. This programme is developed by Cathy Fitzgerald whose eco-social art practice ‘The Hollywood Forest Story’ began in 2008.
Take Heed: We Need Culture For Our Spirits
I wrote this poem for artists musicians singers poets and writers who have found themselves out of work during the pandemic. We need to value artists and and remember that we need culture for our spirits now more than any other time.
Last Hug: A Morning Melody with Singer Katie O Connor
Lovely to start the day with a morning melody from the wonderful performer Katie O Connor singing a song I wrote called Last Hug
The Demise of Mrs Doyle
Wrote this new poem called The Demise of Mrs Doyle about the hazards of Irish hospitality in the context of Covid 19. You can listen to it here on soundcloud: Mrs. Doyle’s Demise I hear a knock on the door Then hear the voice of Joan Do you mind if I come in?...
The Last Hug Song
I wrote this song in response to these extraordinary pandemic times. At the start of the first lockdown my dad said 'this could be the last hug for a while'. I sobbed when he left, not knowing when I would see my parents and family again. Its hard to believe that we...
We want to leave a woodland
A Happy Holly-day for one of our native species as Lisa Rena and friends plant 500 hollies on their land in Ballybunion on the Solstice
Legacy of Lixnaw: The Floating Flagstone
‘Legacy of Lixnaw’ was filmed at the Old Court, Lixnaw, Co Kerry. The camera takes us through the site of the ancient palace, the seat of the Fitzmaurices. Narrated by local historian, Pat Joe Gilbert, it weaves the story of this space in times long past…the decadent...
A month of Eating Irish Food, Ellie O Byrne, The Irish Times
The answer lies in my growing personal awareness of the damage to humans and to the environment by our increasingly globalised food supply chain. It’s also to do with Kerry-based artist and food activist Lisa Fingleton. Fingleton the founder of a growing movement...
The Local Food Project: Greenbites Podcast by Ellie O Byrne
Greenbites podcast interview with Lisa Fingleton and Rena Blake on being the change and growing local food.
The Local Food Project at The 8th Pan European Conference on Digital Education, Slovenia
Delighted to be part of the 8th Pan-European Conference on Digital Education hosted by Primera in Slovenia. I gave the key note presentation 'The local food project: Think global, eat local' about the power of eating local food. This conference is devoted to GLOBAL...