From time to time, Richard speaks at events and conferences. Here are some upcoming events where you can catch Richard Nairn speaking.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Book Launch: Future Wild – Nature Restoration in Ireland
Time/Date: 1st October 2024, 6pm
Location: Hodges Figgis Bookshop, 56-58 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 XE81
Free Admission
Richard Nairn’s new book — Future Wild: Nature Restoration in Ireland — is a positive contribution to the debate about how to restore nature, how to ensure a more diverse landscape that will be better for wildlife and people. Future Wild is by turns shocking and hopeful that the damage to nature can be undone, creating a richer environment for us all.
Regenerating Our Forests at the Dublin Book Festival
Time/Date: 10am, Sunday 10th November 2024
Location: The Printworks, Dublin Castle, D02 V8R2
Free Admission – Booking Required
The crucial role our trees play in maintaining the health of our planet is well known. The decimation of our natural forests has become one of the most controversial issues of our time, preserving and restoring them one of our most pressing issues. Journalist and author Sylvia Thompson is joined by two authors whose latest works address these issues and more. Donal Magner’s Why Forest? Why Wood? (The Lilliput Press) explores the fundamental values that constitute sustainable forestry and what that means to society, providing a comprehensive study of one of our greatest renewable resources and how it is the key to sustainable living in uncertain times. By turns shocking, hopeful and finally positive, Richard Nairn’s Future Wild (New Island) shows that the damage we have done to nature can also be undone by us, and that, with nature restoration, we can create a richer and more diverse environment for generations to come.
RECENT EVENTS
Nature Restoration on the Coast and Sea with Richard Nairn
Time/Date: Friday 2nd August 2024, 6pm – 7.30pm
Location: Carlingford Marina, Carlingford, County Louth, A91 DWP3
Free Admission
In this conversation with Alexander McMaster, Richard discussed opportunities for marine restoration along our coasts.
Kilmacurragh Nature Walk with Richard Nairn |
Time/Date: 17th August 2024, 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Location: National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh, County Wickow, A67 YR12
Free Admission
This event was a guided walk with Richard Nairn to see the wildflower meadows and woodlands in the National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh.
Ussher Lecture at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
Time/Date: 21st August 2024, 1pm
Location: Library of the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 HH58
The naturalist Richard J. Ussher (1841-1913) is best known for his landmark book, The Birds of Ireland, which is regarded as a classic of ornithology. The joint author was Robert Warren of County Mayo. Ussher lived near Dungarvan, County Waterford and he was also a very accomplished speleologist producing many interesting papers on the fossils found in caves. His collection of papers, correspondence and records was donated to the Royal Irish Academy where they are available for historical research. The Royal Irish Academy has now received a grant from the Heritage Council for its The Birds of Ireland project. This funding will help to conserve, catalogue and digitise the Ussher Bird Notes collection.
On Wednesday 21 st August at 1pm, Richard Nairn presented a lecture on Richard Ussher’s life and work as part of Heritage Week 2024. The lecture was held in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 HH58. The lecture will be open to all.