Carrowcrory Labyrinth Gardens

Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 4th July, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Create Poetry 2021 sharing our heart's voices Anyone can create and perform wonderful inspired poetry, despite many fears about not being able to. At a Bards In The Woods session one woman had left here poems at home, so I asked her, "What scraps of paper are in your purse?". She had a shopping list. I asked "Read that" ... and she did, and the passion with every item she read out expressed to us the feeling she had for each item. Beautifully done, and real poetry. Now I am not inviting everyone to submit your poetic potential shopping lists, but part of this session will be dedicated to your compilation of random thoughts about what you are feeling and sensing, and putting these together as amazing freeform or lyrical poetry. So for this 'Nature Folklore' session on Sunday I am inv

Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 27th June, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Ogham, The Ballymote Bards Story part of my Ogham series Many scholarly references to Ogham are linked to the ancient Book Of Ballymote, and Ballymote happens to only be 10km, about 8 miles, from Carrowcrory. So this afternoon we will look at some of the Ogham related content in this late medieval book from the Scriptoreum of Ballymote plus some speculated 'bardic' connections to this. Speculated, as we only have fragments of recorded information on Ogham and how it was used.  Most of the Ogham information and practices used today have been assembled from what I now call the 'Three Ages Of Celtic Folklore Romance'  The first 'age' was when printing machines became low cost enough for new small business entrepreneurs to indulge in.  This was especially abundant from 1840, a time that was ki

Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 20th June, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Midsummer Gathering sharing your interpretations & celebrations of this time This is a 'pot luck' gathering of your contributions through pre-recorded video clips, photograph and audio collections, and being a live guest on our show on Sunday afternoon, Irish time.  The foundation theme of this is 'What does Midsummer mean to you? How do your feel Midsummer? How do you feel it, connect to it, express it, and celebrate it?'  On the 'menu' so far are ... St. John and water & more water blessings from Women Of The Water Herbs for this time Bonfire traditions Feasting at Midsummer and some Bardic banter before and after So please message me to arrange submitting your pre-recorded video clips, photos, and audio clips. I can assemble these into short videos for broadcast. But please, p

Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 13th June, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Sound Bathing with Women Of The Water vibrations of sound to dissolve stress away This Nature Folklore session is intended to combine our essential intimacy with water with our intimacy with sound.  Sound therapy has become very popular over the past 10 years with many sound students forming exceptional sound therapy practices born out of their ongoing lifelong apprenticeships. Additionally water therapy practices are being born through more intimate understanding of water and increased gratitude for it. It seems wonderful and appropriate that sound therapy is often called 'Sound Bathing'.  During this Nature Folklore session our guests will include a return of Saraí Humble of All Is Well and Shannon Michaela Doree Smith of Women Of The Water. I will add an indication of what they will share with us when

Next Nature Folklore Sessions Live - Sunday 6th June, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Bloom Time our garden sanctuaries Before Covid arrived, at this time Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, hosted the spectacular 'Bloom Festival', but that has not been possible last year, or this year. So, for this 'Nature Folklore' session let's indulge in our Garden Sanctuaries. Veggie gardens will now be growing sturdily here in the Northern Hemisphere, and beautiful bees and butterflies attracting flowers blooming too. Let's celebrate this! I am inviting guests to share their gardens with us on Sunday, including abundant gardens, gardens with lovely little projects happening, and humble but delightful new gardens of people starting out in gardening and find it comforting despite challenges and seemingly small yields yet. So please invite yourself to share and show us what is happening in y