The richness of the Irish language is tied to the natural landscape and afforded our ancestors a more magical way of seeing the world.

Coinciding with Heritage Week 2024, and expanding cultural connections explored in the exhibition In Search of Hy-Brasil at Solstice Arts Centre, this symposium chaired by Manchán Magan explores the complex relationship and interdependency between language and the environment. Magan is joined by landscape historian & architect Finola O’Kane, currach maker Pádraig Ó Duinnín, wildlife documentary presenter Eoin Warner, and Irish translator/editor Seán Ó Dubhda.

Discussions will explore how the Irish language structures our idea of landscape and the environment, using the Meath Gaeltacht as example, its roots in the West of Ireland, consisting of two adjacent villages of Ráth Chairn and Baile Ghib, (linguistic islands) located close to Navan town in County Meath.

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