Eoghan Daltun is an author, sculptor and farmer based on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork, for the last 12 years he has been rewilding his own ground, giving this area entirely over to nature, mostly in the form of highly species-rich native Atlantic temperate rainforest.

His best-selling book, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest charts that remarkable journey, part memoir, part environmental treatise, as a wild forest bursts into life before our eyes, we’re also invited to consider the burning issues of our time: climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and why our very survival as a species requires that we urgently, and radically, transform our relationship with nature. This is a story as much about doing nothing as taking action – allowing natural ecosystems to return and thrive without interference, and in doing so heal an ailing planet. 

After Eoghan’s talk he will be joined for a conversation and q&a with Pádraic Fogarty