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anniehollandart.bsky.social @anniehollandart.bsky.social · Aug 25
Time to reflect on what a wonderful Summer it has been so far….. for one I was delighted to create this movie entitled
“25 Years On… Abbeyleix Bog” The project reflects on how grassroots action evolved into a national blueprint for environmental stewardship in Ireland.
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25 years On...Abbeyleix Bog
A story about community-led conservation and environmental stewardship in Ireland
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anniehollandart.bsky.social
Time to reflect on what a wonderful Summer it has been so far….. for one I was delighted to create this movie entitled
“25 Years On… Abbeyleix Bog” The project reflects on how grassroots action evolved into a national blueprint for environmental stewardship in Ireland.
vimeo.com/1103806179?s...
25 years On...Abbeyleix Bog
A story about community-led conservation and environmental stewardship in Ireland
vimeo.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Last Saturday @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide was a wonderful bogs special - marking International Bog Day tomorrow - and our project in Tyrrellspass featured www.tocharwetlands.ie/ga/an-nuacht... - if you havent read the show - give it a listen this weekend and visit your local bog #spéirghorm
Tóchar Stories workshop with St Anne’s School, Tyrrellspass features on Countrywide Bog Special - Tóchar Wetlands
Tóchar Stories workshop with St Anne’s School, Tyrrellspass features on Countrywide Bog Special Ella McSweeney featured a Bog Special on […]
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July 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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25 years ago local community stood up for bog's protection for people, place and nature - celebrating community action #Abbeyleix @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social
beautiful storytelling via @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
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Saving Abbeyleix Bog
25 years ago, 37 locals protested to save Abbeyleix Bog, now a local centre for locals, tourists and nature.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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We're facilitating a bog talk/ walk in #Kilteevan Roscommon #Spéirghorm for Heritage Week,August 16 Saturday 11am - talk indoors with Kilteevan bog volunteers + NPWS experts and then guided walk on nearby Cloonlarge Bog. Register if you are in area and want to join? www.eventbrite.ie/e/bog-eco-ta...
Bog Eco-Talk & Guided Walk, Kilteevan, Roscommon
Why do we need to restore our bogs? Kilteevan Tidy Towns , NPWS & Tóchar Stories invite you an indoor chat followed by a guided bog walk
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July 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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We get to work with some #bog gems in @tocharstories.bsky.social, Eugene Dunbar is definitely one. At close our recent collaboration with primary school in #Tyrrellspass we asked him what he'd learnt from it - and why working with children matters. #Spéirghorm
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Eugene Dunbar on working with the children of St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass
Retired teacher Eugene Dunbar is a bit of a legend in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath. He is a volunteer leader of the community custodians of the local bog - Cloncrow Bog - and he is passionate about ecology
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July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Our Tyrrellspass children's project featuring in @rteradio1.bsky.social Countrywide's bog special - here's the little audio feature that captures the essence of the work Eugene Dunbar and artist Annie Holland did with the children of St Anne's NS #Spéirghorm
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Tyrrellspass children get to tell their own bog stories
Before the Summer break the 4th Class children of St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass Westmeath got to take part in a bog nature and creative art project under Tóchar Stories - led by local ecologist and volunt
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July 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Eugene is a remarkable force of nature - more doing than talking - so privileged to record a few words with him at close of a recent community engagement project via @tocharstories.bsky.social
where the local children in #Tyrrellspass created and designed the new boardwalk entrance #Spéirghorm
July 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sharing audio stories of Tyrrellspass -project starting with Rachel and her Butterwort drawing that now greets visitors to Cloncrow Bog. She's a talented artist and runner so she sent the postcard of her bog art to champion Rashidat Adeleke. #Spéirghorm
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Rachel's Butterwort
Pantisocracy
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July 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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We're creating soundcloud.com/athena-media... an audio snapshots playlist from our project @tocharstories.bsky.social sharing vignettes of the people we met and the stories they share along the way #bogs
#Spéirghorm #Wetlands #Ireland
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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and here's Amber with her beautiful green veined white butterfly and since Amber's from Croghan we had to talk about the Croghan Bog Man - who is now in the National Museum #Spéirghorm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Cro...

Listen here:
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Amber on why the Croghan Bog Man should come back to Croghan
Pantisocracy
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July 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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and here's a lovely story of friendship with Abby sending her bog fallow deer to her friend Maya in Longford
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Abby and Maya
Pantisocracy
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July 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Our busy June - local newspaper coverage of our children's projects connecting art and bog biodiversity in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath and Kilteevan, Roscommon - our thanks to the support and interest from Westmeath Examiner and Roscommon Herald - #tócharStories
Westmeath examiner coverage of children's project in Tyrrellspass and Tóchar Stories Roscommon Herald coverage of Kilteevan and children's project with Tóchar Stories
July 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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How the #Kilteevan NS children in Roscommon got to discover more about the butterflies of their local bog and create their own paintings and mini exhibition @tocharstories.bsky.social #bogs are us!
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Kilteevan primary school children get to discover butterflies at their local bog and create their own artwork - Tóchar Wetlands
Kilteevan primary school children get to discover butterflies at their local bog and create their own artwork By Helen Shaw […]
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June 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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How lovely is this, when Ewa, 2nd class, sees her painting of the Dingy Butterfly in the children's nature, bog butterflies and art exhibition, Kilteevan, Roscommon and proudly poses before it. #TócharStories #bogs #butterflies ( it's her shoulder shrug that does it!)
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We're making news! The #Tyrrellspass children's art and bog nature project has made the Westmeath Examiner. www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2025/06/25/c... #tocharstories
Children create new artwork to tell story of Cloncrow Bog | Westmeath Examiner
Children from the primary school in Tyrrellspass have created their own artwork to show and tell the story of Cloncrow Bog, supported by Ethos, the local volunteer bog conservation group, and Tóchar M...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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We'd a wonderful time this past week in #Kilteevan, Roscommon working with the National School on a butterfly/bog and creative art project - where the children aged 8-13 got to know more about their local bog Cloonlarge Bog, and the butterflies there and created their own artwork
#TócharStories
Ruth with her butterfly painting samrathana painting her comma butterfly the classes after their bog walk exploration for butterflies with artist Annie Holland and Therese Kelly NPWS with teacher Michelle Whyte and principal Colette Brennan
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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We've an amazing resource underground in restored and healthy bogs that can store twice as much carbon as trees....but if we don't restore them they're emitters - a 'ticking box' of greenhouse gases.
#bogs #tócharstories
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World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
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February 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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It's a joy to work on projects like this, deepening community engagement across all ages with nature, place and belonging #TócharStories #wetlandsRestoration
tocharstories.bsky.social Tóchar Community Stories @tocharstories.bsky.social · Jun 17
working with Kilteevan National School, Roscommon this week on new bog nature and creative art project with artist Annie Holland and led by local nature volunteer Eileen Fahey who heads Kilteevan Tidy Towns @communitywetlands.bsky.social
an amazing bunch of children (+ teachers!)
#tócharstories
local volunteer Eileen Fahey in classroom with children school photo Kilteevan NS Annie Holland working with children after their bog walk in Kilteevan at Cloonlarge Bog The children on the Cloonlarge Bog loop with Eileen Fahey and teacher Michelle Whyte
June 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Here's one of the children's postcards - Rachel Ryan's butterwort - isn't it gorgeous ? #Tócharstories
drawing of bog plant butterwort by children Rachel Ryan in Tyrrellspass
June 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The project with the children started in late March and their artwork is just beautiful - Annie Holland also had the genius idea of making badges with them so they get to wear their art #tócharstories
Annie showing a child from 4th class how to make badges of his own artwork inspired by the bog
June 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Beautiful day in #Tyrrellspass with the children from St Anne's NS, bog community leader Eugene Dunbar and artist Annie Holland as the artwork created by the children is now installed at entrance to #CloncrowBog. Go visit ! Photos by Eugene
bog Hugo Davis pointing to his artwork on the boardwalk panel Girl - Lexi Shaw Cunniffe - writing up a postcard to tell the story of Cloncrow Bog on postcards made from her artwork all of 4th Class at the boardwalk panel that they created which is now the entrance to Cloncrow Bog
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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How gorgeous is this? The Bog Beetle by Johaan, a pupil at St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass Westmeath, which is now pride of place on the Cloncrow Bog boardwalk entrance #tócharstories. The 4th Class designed the boardwalk panels to showcase their own relationship with their local bog.
child standing in front of drawing of bot beetle part of a child designed boardwalk at Cloncrow Bog Westmeath
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Look what we did. The children of St Anne's NS Tyrrellspass celebrating their bog inspired artwork that now tells their story of "their bog" - #tócharstories. Photos by Annie Holland artist mentor to the children on the bog nature and art project
girl showing her artwork on the boardwalk panel at Cloncrow Bog girl showing her artwork at Cloncrow Bog, Tyrrellspass Girl showing her artwork at Cloncrow Bog
June 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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working with Kilteevan National School, Roscommon this week on new bog nature and creative art project with artist Annie Holland and led by local nature volunteer Eileen Fahey who heads Kilteevan Tidy Towns @communitywetlands.bsky.social
an amazing bunch of children (+ teachers!)
#tócharstories
local volunteer Eileen Fahey in classroom with children school photo Kilteevan NS Annie Holland working with children after their bog walk in Kilteevan at Cloonlarge Bog The children on the Cloonlarge Bog loop with Eileen Fahey and teacher Michelle Whyte
June 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Twas soooooo much fun!
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emma-okelly.bsky.social Emma O Kelly @emma-okelly.bsky.social · Jan 7
School’s out. #sneachta #Laois (Video from Annie Holland)
January 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM