Teanga agus Éiceolaíocht – Language and Ecology
In this third of four workshops in our ‘Discovering Dúchas’ series, we teach how gathering evidence from the natural world is essential to our well-being. To notice is to honour. And to honour is to recognise our interdependence with all creatures and sentient life around us.
Opening communication with the natural world is central to healing ourselves, moving from understanding, to insight, then to protection. We exercise a hidden but latent part of ourselves when we enter into communication with nature. We may do it naturally in our everyday lives but not always with intent.
As part of this half-day 4hr workshop we learn to document our own ‘dúchas’ in real time, rebuilding physical and intuitive competency as ‘nature literacy’. Our home places are wedded together with story-lines that remain to be written as we explore the relationship between language and place in the Irish- as Gaeilge- and in the hiberno-english vernacular.
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Lorcan McBride
I live under Uisce Chaoin Mountain on the border of Derry and Donegal, beside the mighty Foyle river and the fecund Lis na Grá woodland. My immediate clanns are McBride, McCudden, Anderson and Price. I have 4 children and work in outdoor education.
Shane O'Connor
Shane O'Connor is my name, and my other clanns are Moorhouse, Murphy and Bryan from the Eastern coastal waters, woods and hills of Leinster, Ireland. I have two daughters, Kíra and Lúa and although originally from Baile átha Cliath/Dublin, I live (not just survive!) with my family in Madrid. I work with people to create beneficial change by reconnecting with indigenous wisdom, practices and knowledge.
Héilín Nic Enrí
Born and reared in Doire (Oak Grove or Derry) with care and love from the Henderson, Mitchell, Steele and Plews people.
I am a water based mammal, sustained and inspired by the River Faughan, Foyle, Roe and the Atlantic Ocean.
I have 2 boys and I work in community education and human rights.