Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026We'll be holding a West Cork launch for my new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' in Bantry Bookshop on Friday the 25th of September at 6pm. If you're in the area, do come along! 26514
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This coming Sunday at 6.30pm, the first of the 2-part tv version of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will air on @rteone.rte.ie. It's a portrait of astonishing beauty, and of the raw joy and hope that rewilding brings into our lives. about.rte.ie/2026/08/18/a...about.rte.ieAn Irish Atlantic Rainforest: The Story of a West Cork Rainforest on the edges of the Beara Peninsula – About RTÉThe two-part series begins Sunday 23 August at 6.30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player An Irish Atlantic Rainforest tells the story of Eoghan Daltun, who has created his very own rainforest by rewilding an o... 09827
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026For anyone trying to watch the trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: click on the link, rather than the 'play' icon on the screen (the latter doesn't seem to work, for some reason!). 04212
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Watch this gorgeous short trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, and you'll be ravenous for the rest. One reviewer captured it: "With its endlessly alluring imagery, this [film] is an invitation to fall in love." vimeo.com/1211649058/7...vimeo.comAn Irish Atlantic Rainforest Trailer_ProResWhen a Dublin sculptor trades city life for 73 acres of ecologically ravaged land on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, he discovers that the most radical act of conservation is simply learning to do noth... 612532
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you've ever seen 'cuckoo spit' (a foamy substance) on a plant, this amazing insect may well be the cause. In their nymph stage, alder spittlebugs create a bubbly cocoon for protection from predators. 37210
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit. 17069322468
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldIrish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 01/05/2026📣 Rally 4 Ireland’s Seas 🌊 🗓️ Thurs 21 May 📍Leinster House 🔗 tinyurl.com/Rally4Irelan... We’re rallying to demand urgent publication of long-promised Marine Protected Areas legislation. #FairSeas #Rally4IrelandsSeas @fairseas.ie @irishenvnet.bsky.social 0108
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Copies of 'Setting the Land Free' can be pre-ordered here: linktr.ee/SettingTheLa...linktr.eeSettingTheLandFree | LinktreeSetting The Land Free by Eoghan Daltun, coming August 2026 4386
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter. 38798192
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I woke up this morning to one of the most beautifully plaintive, haunting calls from the rainforest just outside my window. An cuach – cuckoo – heralding summer's arrival. 828847
Deirdre Fitzgerald @deebantry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026That wonderful time of the year (at last) 🌅 Bantry Bay, West Cork 0446
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The sunshine has brought out so many butterfly species. It's such a joy to see them. 29721
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Cormorant in an Irish rainforest! 625129
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This video, and 2 copies of the matching book, have been sent to **every primary school in Ireland**. It's possibly THE most outrageous industry propaganda I've ever seen. The descriptions of Sitka deadzones are so totally false, it's hard to know where to even start. share.google/0vebeGw2dwTd...share.googleSitka Spruce the Amazing Timber TreeThis is "Sitka Spruce the Amazing Timber Tree" by iPLANiT Productions on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 1012448
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/04/2026In how many places can you enjoy a pint of the black stuff with a view like this? 1131618
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/04/2026One of Ireland's less common butterflies, the green hairstreak, in a rewilding part of the farm yesterday. Rewilding isn't just about getting more trees and forests back, but increasing diversity and abundance of *all* our natural species and ecosystems. 462261286
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Last week, I met the Grandmother Oak of Cahermurphy Woods in co Clare, one of the largest, most charismatic wild trees I've ever seen in Ireland. Once commonplace, such wondrous beings are now vanishingly rare. So much lost, so little left. Time to start bringing some back, through *rewilding*. 181158152
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/03/2026At first glance, these two winter scenes may look similar. But the native rainforest on the left is being killed by overgrazing, while the other is in a healthy, regenerating, state. We owe it to nature – to ourselves – to learn the difference, and to act on it. 012524
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I can't wait to celebrate World Rewilding Day 2026 with the wonderful Kerri ní Dochartaigh at the Slieve Aughty Centre, Co. Galway, on Friday the 20th. We'll be talking the Great Forest of Aughty, and rewilding's potential to return some of the nature we've lost. www.celtnet.org/events/world...celtnet.orgWorld Rewilding Day with Kerri ni Dochartaigh and Eoghan Daltun. | CELTJoin us for an evening of Conversation, community and creativity. 07920
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/03/2026*SO* thrilled yesterday to see the first screening of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, the film about my 17-year journey rewilding a West Cork farm. It went far and away beyond my hopes: a mesmerisingly lovely, immersive piece of work, almost dreamlike in parts, but grounded in ecology and daily life. 1530356
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I have one spare ticket for the long sold-out premiere of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest at the Dublin International Film Festival next week. Like and repost this if you'd be interested in the chance of coming along for free! 17030
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month. Tickets are available here: www.diff.ie/programme/an... 63849181
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Eyeries Cascades, nearby on the Kealincha River. There's still some residual oak, rowan, willow, and other native tree species around, but I can't help imagining how magical this must have been when it was enclosed in thick, wild Atlantic rainforest. Without sheep, it could be again. #Rewilding 🌎 014319
Reposted by Deirdre FitzgeraldEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2025A very old oak in Dereen Garden, Kerry. When it started life, the area likely still belonged to the O'Sullivan Beares, before English colonialists took it by force in the mid-17th century and cleared the rainforest. Just like Palestine now, land theft, racist genocide, & ecocide went hand in hand. 612532
