Earth Writings: reorienting relations to Irish Bogs, Forests, Fields, Gardens and Waters

A collaborative initiative of new Irish writing and culture for these urgent times

Earth Writings Online Book Launches 2020

How can we repair our collapsing environments? Learn from artists who ‘stay with the trouble’ in Irish bogs, forests, fields and urban gardens. Book available fro 8€ at Temple Bar Art Gallery bookstore: https://shop.templebargallery.com/collections/artist-books/products/karen-till-earth-writings-bogs-forests-fields-gardens

Exhibition Launch

Bogs, Forests, Fields and Gardens exhibition 18-29 Nov 2019, Maynooth Library. Launch with Seminar ‘Tirdhreach Feasach: Irish Environments in Transition’, Maynooth Geography Seminar Series.

Earth Writings Podcasts

Cultural values and responses are missing from Irish public discourse about the ecological emergency. Our EW Podcasts shares in-depth conversations between cultural academics, creative practitioners, community leaders, scholars and activists living in Ireland who are exploring values needed to foster an ecological era.

How Earth Writings Started

By: post September 26, 2019November 16, 2020

Featured, Organisers, Collaborators, SymposiaCork University Press, earth writings, Gerry Kearns, Karen Till, LoveIrishResearch, Maynooth University, Moore Institute, National University of Galway, Nessa Cronin

The Earth Writings editors have promoted exchanges between artists, scholars, community leaders, activists and practitioners living and working in Ireland and beyond through the Space&Place Research Collaborative, the Ómós Áite Space/Place Reading Group, and the Mapping Spectral Traces network, as well as through their research partnerships. Below are a selection of earlier projects leading to Earth Writings.