Latest posts tagged with #LoveBogs on Bluesky
Thoughtful episode of Countrywide with @philipb-h.bsky.social exploring how different communities are involved in a changing relationship with peatlands - many of them people and places we're working with in @tocharstories.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... #LoveBogs
The winter water monitoring and fresh water invertebrate surveys are now complete, finishing off this period with a trip to Girley Bog NHA💧 We were also lucky to identify multiple frog spawning spots while on the reserve 🐸
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Sharing our past, imagining our future, our @tocharstories.bsky.social storytelling day in Carbury, Kildare captured in a little video montage #LoveBogs
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We asked Ciaran Duggan, chair of Carbury Bogs Trust, for his wish for the future - and he connected nature conservation with community resilience and how people connecting to nature, through their local landscape and bogs, was a starting place. #LoveBogs @tocharstories.bsky.social
Lovely working with artists Luke Casserly and Shane Hynan in Carbury Kildare #Spéirghorm on our @tocharstories.bsky.social project #LoveBogs
Wonderful day in Tipperary in @scohaboybog.bsky.social with local Cloughjordan community leader Gearoid O'Foighil and getting an opportunity to witness the amazing transformation in this landscape through bog restoration work. A real credit to the community, public and private landowners. #LoveBogs
Lovely twinning of world wetlands day and St Brigid's day - Imbolc - a cloak of nature #loveBogs
Wonderful group in #Mountbellew Men's Shed - full of stories, songs and chats. Part of our community storytelling work with Tóchar Wetlands Restoration - under Just Transition Fund. #LoveBogs
We've brought together some of the stories collected with the Mountbellew Men's Shed in Co Galway - wonderful group who shared songs, stories, memories and cups of tea with us! #LoveBogs @tocharstories.bsky.social
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What wonderful news for #Lemanaghan just a year after the storm that uncovered this archaeological, historic and cultural find- now dated 1,000 years old - and again in time for this year's community celebration of St Manchan #LoveBogs #offaly www.rte.ie/news/leinste...
Absolute love this story we did with Sean Mooney in Kilteevan for @tocharstories.bsky.social about how his late father and uncle found the oldest wheel technology in Ireland when they were working in their bog in 1969. #loveBogs #heritage #culture #StoriesAreUs
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Ireland's oldest wheel technology - carbon dated 400 BC - is on display in @nmireland.bsky.social but do you know it was found in 1969 by two brothers cutting turf in a Co Roscommon bog? Here's the story #LoveBogs #Spéirghorm #Ireland
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iaf.ie/news/bog-bot... Call out to communities who may want to take part in Bog Bothy Tour 2026 - expression of interest on hosting the Bog Bothy in your area. Share with those you think can benefit? #LoveBogs
Men's Shed Mountbellew
Tómas on guitar in the Men's Shed Mountbellew
We've been collecting stories, songs and memories in the Mountbellew Men's Shed, Galway - just beside the Galway Living Bog - a great group of men - with stories of growing up at the bog and working on it #LoveBogs
One word to describe the bog - what the children of Camcloon NS said to @katiesmirnova.bsky.social #Roscommon #LoveBogs
Ruth picked a Holly Blue in our bog butterfly and art creativity project #Kilteevan Roscommon and said it inspired her to get more into nature and be curious about bog wildlife. We ran the project in June and came back this month with postcards for the children of their artwork and stamps! #LoveBogs
Democracy, engagement and dialogue in action - as Midlands children get to have their own 'press' briefing with the Minister of State for nature, heritage and biodiversity #LoveBogs #Tóchar vimeo.com/1139605268?s...
When past, present and future collided for schoolchildren at the @nmireland.bsky.social #LoveBogs www.tocharwetlands.ie/community-st...
We love our job - and working with the Mountbellew Men's Shed in Galway at the Galway Living Bog ! #LoveBogs vimeo.com/1135673414?s...
Minister of State Christopher o Sullivan with the children of Tyrrellspass their teacher Laura Lynch, community volunteer leader Eugene Dunbar and Tóchar stories curator Helen Shaw
The Tyrrellspass primary school children also got a surprise when the biodiversity Minister Christopher O Sullivan joined them for a lunchtime outdoor briefing #LoveBogs
St Anne's 5th class in National Museum with teacher Laura Lynch and community leader Eugene Dunbar
National Museum guide Matthew Lester explaining the story of the bog body found in Croghan in the National Museum. The children's teaching assistant Dawn also in the picture
Wonderful day in @nmireland.bsky.social with Matthew Lester guiding our St Anne's Tyrrellspass Westmeath children. They were determined to see all three bog bodies, fascinated by Matthew's stories, and several of them already plotting a return family trip to the Museum. Do visit! #LoveBogs
Eugene Dunbar in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath is a force for nature! We've been working with him all year as part of #TócharStories and he mentored the local primary school for our art-bog project. Next week we take the children to the National Museum to see the bog treasures #LoveBogs
Beautiful piece by Anne Gately Mercier on her family roots in the boglands capturing so much of our changing times and traditions - from Sunday Miscellany #LoveBogs
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project of badges for red grouse ballydangan project made by children
Badge making is the best fun #LoveBogs #BallydanganRedGrouseProject
Tóchar Stories with children's bog collage and Pat Feehily of Red Grouse Project
Children with their artwork collage of the Ballydangan Bog
Halloween is a wonderful time to explore bogs with children #Ballydangan - we spent all last week with the Ballydangan Bog Red Grouse Project and the children of Camcloon NS #LoveBogs - where the children got to know the bog, spend time there, and create their own art collage of it #curlews
butterfly drawn by children
butterfly drawn by children
butterfly common blue drawn by children
butterfly drawn by children
We're just printing postcards of the children's artwork from our bog talk/walk and art creativity project in #Kilteevan Roscommon - aren't these beautiful? Contact us if you'd like to receive postcards from the series - follow us and DM #Spéirghorm #LoveBogs #CloonlargeBog
Sophie carroll hunt working in class with the children
we're in school all week and we've matched the bog talk and walk with a creative design workshop for the children led by Longford artist Sophie Carroll Hunt - so they children from Camcloon NS will create their own bog collage for Friday - their last school day before the halloween break #LoveBogs
Katie smirnova and Pat Feehily - together at Ballydangan Bog Co Roscommon where they guided the children of Camcloon NS in a bog talk and walk for Tóchar stories
Katie smirnova guiding children on the Ballydangan Bog Roscommon
Children from Camcloon NS on a bog walk and talk with Tóchar Stories
Lively (and mostly dry day) on Ballydangan Bog, Roscommon where we're working with children from Camcloon NS - just minutes from bog. Katie Smirnova, who works with Tóchar Stories as a naturist, and Pat Feehily, local bog custodian from Ballydangan Red Grouse Bog Project were our guides. #LoveBogs
We had the pleasure of co-hosting a community storytelling in #Kilcormac last month and photographer @tinaclaffey.bsky.social was a special guest. Tina shared a little of her own story, her changing relationship to the bog, and how it now defines her artistic work #LoveBogs
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