Dig into the #AmplifyArchaeology archives with an episode exploring an important and innovative project that is helping farmers to protect the archaeology on their land. Find this episode and more on your favourite podcast platforms, and here: abartaheritage.ie/farming-rathcr…

Collapsing palsa through the thawing #permafrost looks very sad. We want to understand the rate of this process in #Norway. Katarzyna Marcisz Daria Wochal. Thank you Narodowe Centrum Nauki!This is just the beginning of our research. #peat #GlobalWarming #Carbon UAM Poznań Biuro Prasowe UAM

Choctaw tribal members, tribal leaders, and dignitaries from Oklahoma and Ireland (Irish Foreign Ministry & Thomas Byrne) gathered at the Choctaw Capitol Grounds on August 30 to unveil a new sculpture honoring the Choctaw-Irish connection. Learn more at choctawnation.com/news/news-rele….

You're invited to a special guided tour of the National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology with Director Lynn Scarff! Join us at 6 pm on Thursday, September 5th, as she shares her highlights from the collection. Don't miss this unique opportunity! museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/…

An ancient Oak 🌳 turning the last of the pages of a book that was centuries long & a brand new sapling starting out on a journey in the long grass on the edge of Belfast that could last a thousand years 🌿 The old Celtic word for Oak 'Duir' and the word door share the same

"Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), 'The Stolen Child' 🎨by Ronan Crowley & Bernie Keogh #Ireland #fairies #FolkloreSunday

Persistent Waxcaps, Hygrocybe acutoconica, looking lovely for #mushroommonday! 💛 #fungi #coalspoil #excolliery

Looking forward to contributing a lecture in a few weeks to a series marking the centenary of archaeology Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway in esteemed company

It's Monday, which means it's time to start exploring our #MonumentMonday newsletter! This week we’re heading to the stunning Dingle Peninsula to explore the early monastery at Reask. Make sure to check your inboxes to discover more about this fascinating site!

Launch of ‘Music for Galway’ programme 2024-25 Genesys this pm. Kicks off Fri 27/09 with #RTE Concert Orchestra & no less than Marty Morrissey as MC. Award-winning Adam Buttimer performed (tuba) at launch. facebook.com/reel/133350269… RTÉ lyric fm Finghin Collins

Professor Frances Fahy, Director of the Ryan Institute @ University of Galway is pictured here collecting the prestigious International Geographical Union, Planet and Humanity Medal on behalf of the renowned conservationist, broadcaster and author Sir David Attenborough. Prof Fahy noted that “After 8

📢 Good news for biodiversity! This rare beauty has reappeared in Killarney National Park after almost 130 years. The elusive Yellow Birds-Nest was discovered by our Conservation Rangers at Killarney National Park while they were doing routine surveying work.

The digitisation of our specimens will be a fantastic resource for historical records of occurrences. DigiHerb

#Otd 1828: #Annaghdown, Co. #Galway drowning. 20 people travelling to Galway on the Caisleán Nua were drowned when a sheep put its foot through the floor of the boat. Became subject of lament; Eanach Dhúin, composed by blind Irish poet, Antoine Ó Raifteiri.

Maria explains how to increase species-richness using #GreenHayTransfer. You can find the full method on the Great Irish Grasslands website Doneraile Estate Morna McDowall NPWS Nature Conservation National Parks and Wildlife Service BSBI Ireland Corncrake/Traonach LIFE All-Ireland Pollinator Plan

Just finished reading "Fabre, Poet of Science" by Dr C. V. Legros and translated from the French by Bernard Miall. I picked this book up when we stopped off in Hay-on-Wye on the way back from Cardiff. It was fist published in 1913. Although written in a rather old fashioned and

Have always loved this poem, ‘Begin’. Seems especially fitting for the last weekend before a new academic year, a year of renewal, energy and gratitude…

Well spotted! Maidenhair fern clearly enjoying the clean air of Lisdoonvarna.