Finding solace in animals, plants and land
ANOTHER LIFE: IN THE DUBLIN newsroom of the Daily Express at the end of the 19th century, Charles Moffat was quite a curiosity. His colleagues relished what they saw as his bird-like demeanour: one said he would not have been surprised “if Moffat flew in and lighted on the gas bracket”. Moffat was a naturalist – a real one, adding to the knowledge of nature by watching and listening in the fields and woods.
Making the sea a safer place for all
A hoax flare in Co Galway last weekend highlighted the importance of educating people about responsible ‘sea sense’, writes LORNA SIGGINS Marine Correspondent
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- Growing green antennae
Best known for his seminal book Emotional Intelligence , psychologist and former New York Times science editor Daniel Goleman now turns his attention to our ecological intelligence, writes ARMINTA WALLACE
Breathing life back into a great estate
Until recent times Clandeboye, one of Northern Ireland’s finest surviving estates, was in decline, but regeneration has brought cultural and commercial renewal
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Why mushrooms choose to fruit remains mysterious
ANOTHER LIFE: THE WARMTH of Connacht’s long, dry spring was stored with particular benefit in the sandy undulations of the machair, the west’s distinctive habitats of lawn-like turf behind the seashore, dusted by winter gales with limy seashell fragments and brightly carpeted just now with patches of purple wild thyme.
Trees that surround us in memory of old friends
ANOTHER LIFE: The tree surgeon proved not only to be skilled, devoted and a man of visual taste but a diplomat as well. “You did need some evergreens there,” he supposed, “to break the wind in winter.”
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