‘Be your best you‘ is a new podcast series by David Delaney interviewing people about how they translate their passion into purpose. Today he talks to Lisa Fingleton about The Barna Way and The Local Food Project Listen to the podcast HERE . She strives to ‘be the...
Despite all the challenges of the Pandemic we are continuing to enjoy Spring and all our projects here at The Barna Way. We are really focusing on biodversity, food and habitats this year. We are enjoying working with Dr Barry O Donoghue who has been conducting a...
Have really enjoyed taking part in the Haumea 2021 ecoliteracy learning for creatives and art professionals and would highly recommend it. This programme is developed by Cathy Fitzgerald whose eco-social art practice ‘The Hollywood Forest Story’ began in...
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. Take heed when theatres close...
Lovely to start the day with a morning melody from the wonderful performer Katie O Connor, singing a song I wrote called ‘Last Hug’. Thank you Katie for doing such a beautiful cover. I think we are all realising how precious hugs are in this pandemic and...
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?...
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...
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 A desire to “leave a woodland for the generations to come” was the motivation behind a project on the Winter Solstice...
‘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...
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...
Could YOU live on foods only grown in Ireland for a month each year? Lisa Fingleton is the author of The Local Food Project, based on her 30-day Local Food Challenge: Each September she invites people to try eating only food grown in Ireland. Her partner Rena Blake is...
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...
How do we love? How do we speak of things that we fear? How do we hear the things that we need to hear? This is especially challenging when there is so much divisiveness and fear mongering in the world? I wrote this song while working on The Floating Flagstone with...
Rena Blake and Lisa Fingleton live on an organic social farm near down a small boreen near Ballybunion in North Kerry called The Barna Way. Both are passionate about creativity, community, equality and the nature. They recently planted 10,000 native Irish trees on...
m i n k (Moving Image Network Kerry) is a Kerry-based collective of filmmakers and artists. As part of Culture Night 2020, there is a group exhibition at ANAM Arts & Culture Centre in Killarney featuring films by Eavan Aiken & Jennifer Redmond, Treasa...
A cultural heritage project connecting ‘The Lost Palace of Lixnaw’ with contemporary issues around food, biodiversity and climate change: A creative process of community engagement.Responding to the theme of ‘The Lost Legacy of Lixnaw’ the artists Lisa Fingleton and...
A consideration of rural art practices and cultural imagination in a rural context. Gaining Ground, the latest phase in Clare County Council’s public art programme 2017-2020, culminates in a daylong symposium, where artist practitioners and curators examine how place,...
Grower, artist and writer Lisa Fingleton will be taking part in a Panel on Farming, Conservation and Art, hosted by Paddy Woodworth at the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas. Note from the Festival re Covid 19: Currently due to take place over the weekend of 12th to...
Grow your own vegetables and buy local- this is how Ballybunion woman Lisa Fingleton is taking action to reduce her impact on the environment. By reducing her need for plastic packaging, the unnecessary waste of carbon emissions during transport and the use of...
Join author, artist and grower Lisa Fingleton for an interactive, visual talk on how we can take action on climate change by eating local food, Lisa will be on hand after the talk to sign her book “the Local Food Project”. 7.30, Thursday 28th November, The...