Irish Heritage Week 2024: Let’s Learn Together – The Big Pond Dip at Drummin Bog, Co. Carlow
Sunday 26th May 2024 Join us for a full, informative work party session!! The Drummin Bog Project has a program to remove invasive species from Drummin Bog We need volunteers to help us cut rhododendrons, tackle bracken Join us to enjoy tea and biccies and hear more about the Drummin Bog Project!! Spend some time on…
The latest installment of the CWF (Community Wetland Forum) Creativity for the Wetlands artists webinar series takes place on Thursday 29 February at 7.30 pm. This webinar will feature Jules Michael (Drummin Bog Project), Monica de Bath (Rathangan Meithal) and Kate Flood (Girely Bog) who will speak about the developing Arts Council ‘Invitation to Collaborate’ Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme led out by Carlow County Arts Office in collaboration with Kildare and Meath County Arts Services/Offices.
As part of the Gnáthóga Nádúrtha programme, a series of events in Autumn 2023 marked the end of the first phase with a rotating community engagement event at each of the three sites. ‘Each artist unearthed a physical expression of their work on the project and their local peatland – a Butter Firkin, a Bog…
Please join us on Sunday 12th November for an afternoon of fun, creativity and nature-based activities celebrating our nearby peatlands. Make a wish on muslin for the Gangers Hut. Weave a remnant on a weaver’s frame. Learn about plant lore, making teas from wild plants, and old dairy ways of butter-making. Create your own bog colours postcard, draw bog plants, and hear short talks from the artists involved – the…
Tales and Tastes from the Bog: as part of the 3 county Gnáthóga Nadúrtha Natural Habitats programme supported by Carlow, Kildare and Meath Arts Offices, please join us this Sunday 1st Oct 2-5pm in the Old Schoolhouse, Rathangan Co. Kildare for an afternoon of sharing bog stories, plant lore, the makings of an 1812 Bog Map, and past times, as we weave connections between us and our nearby peatlands.
For Irish Heritage Week 20233 – Join us to celebrate some of the stories and oral history of Carlow’s Drummin Bog, 11 am Sat. 12 Aug. at Drummond Hall!! with founding member and Director of the Irish Oral History Association Adrian Roche of the TheHistoryTrail.ie
“Finding Dragons” Are there lizards on Drummin Bog in South Carlow??!! Please join us for a Citizen Science Survey, 10 am Saturday 22nd July 2023 with herpetologist Rob Gandola.
We need to urgently protect and restore 30% of Earth’s Biodiversity by 2030 Help us safeguard and restore Carlow’s Drummin Bog – the last remaining raised bog in the South East of Ireland. To support the Drummin Bog Project in 2023, the Drummin Bog Project committee are inviting those who may not have the time…
Creative Drummin Bog Committee members Jules Michael and Cathy Fitzgerald were recently invited by the Friends of Ardee Bog to attend an imaginative, creative 3-day Bog Cafe in Ardee Co. Louth. They received a warm welcome and the event strengthened connections between many groups and individuals dedicated to creatively contributing to wetland restoration across Ireland….
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