Join us from 7pm on Friday, 27 March, to celebrate the launch of Wild Earth, a new exhibition about Irish writers and the natural world.Â
How do poetry, storytelling and language offer a way to connect – or reconnect – with nature? In Wild Earth, we explore this question by immersing ourselves in over ninety texts by Irish writers, dating from the sixth century to the present day. The varied representation of nature in Irish literature testifies to the rich biodiversity of this island and its capacity to inspire authors across the centuries.
From the shapeshifting of Amergin to the incantatory power of Paula Meehan’s field work, the texts in this exhibit – voiced by Zara Devlin, Roxanna Nic Liam and Lux Lovett – engage with nature in ways that honour the specifics of experience, yet transcend them to echo long after their moment of time.
