A beekeeper’s daughter and a student of folklore, Eimear Chaomhánach weaves folktales about bees with memories of growing up in a beekeeping household, collecting swarms with her father and learning how to harvest honey. A fascinating look at the beliefs and traditions about bees and beekeeping.
A journey across Ireland, in words and dazzling images, exploring the nature we pass every day. Go deep in the bog, high in the mountains and under crashing waves. Discover alpine flowers blooming in the Burren, meet ferocious anemones on our shorelines, and visit the Shannon Dolphins, who have had a place in local legend for centuries.
A very personal world tour, exploring how it feels to be among plants and animals in another continent and not to recognise a single thing! From tundra to reefs, rainforests to deserts, she explores the world's ecosystems, and the damage humans are causing. She also talks about her broadcasting career, sharing a love of nature with her many fans.
Craig Weldon came of age on hills all around the British Isles, but especially the Munros in Scotland. With his friends he braved the high mountains of the Cuillin and the lower tops of Gloucestershire, and wild Welsh farmers. Usually funny, sometimes dangerous, more often wet, one thing was for sure: life was never boring!
Ireland’s Love of Bees from the Celts to Connemara
by James Morrissey
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781782189183
Pub Date: 2020-07-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Columba Books
150 Pages
Why are bees so important? Why do we need to protect them? In this book James Morrissey answers all of these questions and even ones you never knew you had! From the waggle dance to beekeeping at Glenstal Abbey, The Bee's Knees is a guide to what WE can do to save one of the most important species in our environment.
Alice began the year wondering how she would feel about reaching eighty. She was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was just another milestone on a journey that is still varied and interesting. Here she writes about these feelings, and the many pleasant and challenging events of her eightieth year.
In this book, based on archival research, oral interviews, memory and personal experience, Chris Whatley explores the history of the tiny island jewel of Pabay, and the people for whom it has been home, to create a vivid picture of the trials, tribulations and joys of island life.
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