Animals Nature and Environment

Tommy Greene - Troubled Waters - BRAND NEW

In the summer of 2023, the people of Northern Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh – the largest freshwater body on these islands – suffocating aquatic life and signalling an...

Paul Clements - A Year in the Woods : Montalto Through the Seasons - BRAND NEW

‘The knockings of autumn are making themselves heard in the rustle of the leaves and whistle of the chilly wind. Spiderwebs are festooned on hedges and a spider is poised at the centre of one. In the fleeting morning sunshine the webs light up in...

James Crombie - Murmurations - HB - BRAND NEW

 As seen in THE IRISH TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT, RTÉ, IRISH EXAMINER, THE JOURNAL and many more…. In the dusk hours of a November evening in 2020, James Crombie set out for the shore of Lough Ennell, Co. Westmeath with no goal except to...

Donal Magner - Why Forests? - The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in Uncertain Times - PB - BRAND NEW

Donal Magner knows the importance of forests better than most as illustrated in his critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods, the definitive guide to over 340 of Ireland’s forests and woodlands. In Why Forests? Why Wood? he seeks...

Patsy Peril with Deirdre Nuttall - Swimming Upstream : One Man's Fight to Save Wild Atlantic Salmon

Patsy Peril was born in 1943 in Coonagh, a small fishing community on the Shannon, not far from Limerick. His family fished from a traditional gandelow boat, using hemp nets. Further upriver was Ardnacrusha, the enormous hydro-electric station, opened in...

Richard Nairn - Wild Waters : The Magic of Ireland's Rivers and Lakes - PB - BRAND NEW 2023

Description Rivers and lakes are the arteries and beating heart of Ireland. To our ancestors these wetlands were their highways, providing valuable sources of food including fish and wildfowl as well as vital materials such as reeds for thatching and...

Tim Robinson - The Burren : A Two Inch Map of the Uplands of West Clare - Folding landscapes

Folded map in clear plastic cover, APPROx A5 size , published by Folding Landscapes, Roundstone, Conamara .  The Burren, a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Shows the scarped limestone topography, National Park, roads and paths, caves...

E Charles Nelson & Wendy Walsh - The Burren : Wildflowers - A Companion to the wildflowers of an Irish Limestone Wilderness PB 1991 ( County Clare)

This botanical study of the Burren, that enigmatic, limestone region in Ireland that harbours in a seemingly barren landscape beautiful plants, ferns, orchids, gentians, mountain avens and many more which are not natural to such a habitat, is accompanied...