Rewilding expert Eoghan Daltun will be at Kennys Bookshop for a launch event  on Wednesday, September 25th at 6pm. He will be joined by campaigner and environmentalist Saoirse McHugh to talk about his new book, The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey. 

Eoghan Daltun is a conservator of sculpture and a sculptor in stone, known for his work in, and advocacy for rewilding. His first book, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding won the An Post Irish Book Award for 'Lifestyle Book of the Year' in 2022. 

Interviewing Eoghan will be environmentalist Saoirse McHugh. Coming from a small hill sheep farm on Achill Island, her interests have always centered on land, agriculture, nature, and the interactions and conflicts of these areas.

About The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey:

In 2023, environmentalist and rewilder Eoghan Daltun 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.

The resulting collection of stunning images, combined with deeply illuminating nature writing, charts that exploration, beginning with the author's own thriving wild rainforest on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, and taking us through the four provinces of Ireland - places such as Killarney National Park, Kerry; The Burren, Clare; Glenveagh National Park, Donegal; and Wicklow's beauty spot of Glendalough.

Luscious forest imagery and landscapes are captured, unimaginably rich in native flora and fauna, offering us a deep insight into rare and priceless ecosystem fragments that we still have but are losing fast, alongside a compelling treatise for how that could so easily be changed for the better.

Signed copies of the new book will be available to purchase on the night and can already be pre-ordered here.

Tickets: €5 each (can be redeemed against a copy of the book in Kennys on the event night) 

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