Spending time listening to community stories and finding ways to tell them - is a gift of a job
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We'd a wonderful day on Saturday in #Carbury Kildare in our community storytelling series 'sharing our past, imagining our future' - we opened with a little bird' eye view capturing Carbury from village to castle and bog #TócharStories
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Sharing our Past, Imagining our Future - Carbury Kildare 24 01 2026
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January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Spending time listening to community stories and finding ways to tell them - is a gift of a job
@tocharstories
@tocharstories
We'd a wonderful day on Saturday in #Carbury Kildare in our community storytelling series 'sharing our past, imagining our future' - we opened with a little bird' eye view capturing Carbury from village to castle and bog #TócharStories
vimeo.com/1158124798?s...
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Sharing our Past, Imagining our Future - Carbury Kildare 24 01 2026
This is "Sharing our Past, Imagining our Future - Carbury Kildare 24 01 2026" by Athena Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
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January 26, 2026 at 7:50 AM
We'd a wonderful day on Saturday in #Carbury Kildare in our community storytelling series 'sharing our past, imagining our future' - we opened with a little bird' eye view capturing Carbury from village to castle and bog #TócharStories
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that's good to hear ! We just did a little piece with Ballydangan Bog and Pat Feehily about the increase in curlew there since bog conservation work began - as he and David Fallon were sharing the story with local school children in an art bog project under #TócharStories
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
that's good to hear ! We just did a little piece with Ballydangan Bog and Pat Feehily about the increase in curlew there since bog conservation work began - as he and David Fallon were sharing the story with local school children in an art bog project under #TócharStories
Eugene Dunbar in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath is a force for nature! We've been working with him all year as part of #TócharStories and he mentored the local primary school for our art-bog project. Next week we take the children to the National Museum to see the bog treasures #LoveBogs
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Eugene Dunbar in Tyrrellspass, Westmeath is a force for nature! We've been working with him all year as part of #TócharStories and he mentored the local primary school for our art-bog project. Next week we take the children to the National Museum to see the bog treasures #LoveBogs
A beautiful community-led distraction from the #Aras25 election results day - via @tocharstories.bsky.social - follow and share #TócharStories for stories from the grassroots about our bogs nature, culture, heritage and ecology
We're just printing postcards of the children's artwork from our bog talk/walk and art creativity project in #Kilteevan Roscommon - aren't these beautiful? Contact us if you'd like to receive postcards from the series - follow us and DM #Spéirghorm #LoveBogs #CloonlargeBog
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A beautiful community-led distraction from the #Aras25 election results day - via @tocharstories.bsky.social - follow and share #TócharStories for stories from the grassroots about our bogs nature, culture, heritage and ecology
Creating postcards from our bog nature & creative art project in Kilteevan NS/ Kilteevan Tidy Towns on Cloonlarge Bog (art mentored by @anniehollandart.bsky.social) Just want to showcase one of the beautiful pieces by a then 2nd class boy- Hadi - and his version of the common Blue #Tócharstories
October 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Creating postcards from our bog nature & creative art project in Kilteevan NS/ Kilteevan Tidy Towns on Cloonlarge Bog (art mentored by @anniehollandart.bsky.social) Just want to showcase one of the beautiful pieces by a then 2nd class boy- Hadi - and his version of the common Blue #Tócharstories
Therese Kelly @npwsireland.bsky.social on why & how we conserve bogs and
process of bog rehabilitation. Part of #TócharStories #HeritageWeek bog talk/walk #Kilteevan - a useful resource for anyone interested in bogs vimeo.com/1116770365?s... @shirleynature.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social
process of bog rehabilitation. Part of #TócharStories #HeritageWeek bog talk/walk #Kilteevan - a useful resource for anyone interested in bogs vimeo.com/1116770365?s... @shirleynature.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Tóchar Stories: Therese Kelly, NPWS on why and how we conserve bogs - Kilteevan, Co Roscommon
Therese Kelly, is conservation officer NPWS, and on August 16th for National Heritage Week she joined us in Kilteevan, Roscommon to present an eco-bog talk and walk…
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September 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Therese Kelly @npwsireland.bsky.social on why & how we conserve bogs and
process of bog rehabilitation. Part of #TócharStories #HeritageWeek bog talk/walk #Kilteevan - a useful resource for anyone interested in bogs vimeo.com/1116770365?s... @shirleynature.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social
process of bog rehabilitation. Part of #TócharStories #HeritageWeek bog talk/walk #Kilteevan - a useful resource for anyone interested in bogs vimeo.com/1116770365?s... @shirleynature.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Therese Kelly @npwsireland.bsky.social on the why and how of bog conservation - from our #HeritageWeek eco bog talk and walk in Kilteevan Roscommon soundcloud.com/athena-media... #bogs #tócharstories @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Therese Kelly - NPWS - on why and how we conserve bogs
Therese Kelly is conservation officer of NPWS and is working with Tóchar to support public and community engagement. On August 16th 2025 for our Heritage Week event in Kilteevan Co Roscommon Therese K
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September 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Therese Kelly @npwsireland.bsky.social on the why and how of bog conservation - from our #HeritageWeek eco bog talk and walk in Kilteevan Roscommon soundcloud.com/athena-media... #bogs #tócharstories @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Thank you for sharing this. Your mission really captures the heart of #publicengagement. Mapping, listening, sharing stories, and respecting local knowledge are exactly what builds trust and meaningful change. Delighted our paths connect through #TócharStories #openresearch
September 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Thank you for sharing this. Your mission really captures the heart of #publicengagement. Mapping, listening, sharing stories, and respecting local knowledge are exactly what builds trust and meaningful change. Delighted our paths connect through #TócharStories #openresearch
This is our mission #publicengagement #JustTransition #wetlands and our approach is mapping, listening and seeding, facilitating conversations, networks, sharing stories and respecting local knowledge, culture and experience. #TócharStories
Public engagement is a journey. Listening, sharing, reflecting, and acting, every step builds a stronger, more open research culture.
#openresearch #publicengagement
#openresearch #publicengagement
September 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is our mission #publicengagement #JustTransition #wetlands and our approach is mapping, listening and seeding, facilitating conversations, networks, sharing stories and respecting local knowledge, culture and experience. #TócharStories
What great images from @scohaboybog.bsky.social on the visual evidence of what nature restoration and bog rehabilitation does #tócharstories #tipperary
Once there was this and now there is……this! 👏🙂 @jamierohu.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @unep.org @peatlands.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
What great images from @scohaboybog.bsky.social on the visual evidence of what nature restoration and bog rehabilitation does #tócharstories #tipperary
Why do bogs matter? What does the bog mean to you? We asked NPWS Therese Kelly about her own personal and professional relationship with the bog #wetlands #TócharStories
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Tóchar Stories : Kilteevan Bog Walk with Therese Kelly, NPWS - What does the bog mean to you?
"What does the bog mean to you?" we asked Therese Kelly, district conservation officer, National Parks Wildlife Service when we were on a community guided…
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August 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Why do bogs matter? What does the bog mean to you? We asked NPWS Therese Kelly about her own personal and professional relationship with the bog #wetlands #TócharStories
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This beautiful and provocative series by TG4 @tg4.bsky.social on our bogs and peatlands with Manchán Magan is still online and really worth a watch, listen and share #bogs #TócharStories - it brings together ecology, climate, culture and history - people, places and nature
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An Fód Deireanach | Player | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile
Presenter Manchán Magan explores our complex relationship with the peatlands of Ireland.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This beautiful and provocative series by TG4 @tg4.bsky.social on our bogs and peatlands with Manchán Magan is still online and really worth a watch, listen and share #bogs #TócharStories - it brings together ecology, climate, culture and history - people, places and nature
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Discovered this lovely video about Carn Park Bog, near Mount Temple Westmeath - featuring the awesome Therese Kelly from NPWS - great, little information video on bog nature and the wonders of Sphagum moss #bogs #westmeath #tócharstories
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Carn Park Bog , Baylin
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August 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Discovered this lovely video about Carn Park Bog, near Mount Temple Westmeath - featuring the awesome Therese Kelly from NPWS - great, little information video on bog nature and the wonders of Sphagum moss #bogs #westmeath #tócharstories
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What are the sounds of the bog? For Seamus Corcoran its bird sounds - and ones he misses from his youth - corncrake and curlew - but in nature restoration these species are returning and can thrive in rewetted #boglands @tocharstories soundcloud.com/athena-media...
Bogland : Seamus Corcoran - historian and community leader, Lemanaghan
Seamus Corcoran is a local historian and a community leader with the Lemanaghan Heritage and Conservation Group. He was a guest speaker at the Tóchar Stories 'Bogland - between the sights of the sun'
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August 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
What are the sounds of the bog? For Seamus Corcoran its bird sounds - and ones he misses from his youth - corncrake and curlew - but in nature restoration these species are returning and can thrive in rewetted #boglands @tocharstories soundcloud.com/athena-media...
What is 'earth literacy?' Michael Long, Cabragh Wetlands shares the concept that while we're very educated today we've lost some of our earth literacy - that innate knowledge, wisdom and connection to nature that our ancestors had #bogland #bogs #TócharStories
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Bogland : Michael Long - Cabragh Wetlands Centre
Fr Michael Long is a community leader and director of Cabragh Wetlands Trust, the community initiative behind the Cabragh Wetlands Centre, Co Tipperary. Michael…
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August 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What is 'earth literacy?' Michael Long, Cabragh Wetlands shares the concept that while we're very educated today we've lost some of our earth literacy - that innate knowledge, wisdom and connection to nature that our ancestors had #bogland #bogs #TócharStories
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The sounds, the bird calls, gone silent on the bog with our changing use of the land - how local historian Seamus Corcoran of Lemanaghan Bog responds to the question of his relationship with the bogland vimeo.com/1107710292 #Spéirghorm #TócharStories #TócharWetlands
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Bogland: Seamus Corcoran - Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group
Seamus Corcoran is a local historian and chairman of the Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group. He was a guest speaker at Bogland: Between the sights of…
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August 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The sounds, the bird calls, gone silent on the bog with our changing use of the land - how local historian Seamus Corcoran of Lemanaghan Bog responds to the question of his relationship with the bogland vimeo.com/1107710292 #Spéirghorm #TócharStories #TócharWetlands
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@shirleynature.bsky.social
If you are in Roscommon, near Lough Ree SAC, join us for a free bog talk and walk on August 16th as part of Heritage Week in #Kilteevan www.eventbrite.ie/e/bog-eco-ta... #TócharStories and do spread the word?
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 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you are in Roscommon, near Lough Ree SAC, join us for a free bog talk and walk on August 16th as part of Heritage Week in #Kilteevan www.eventbrite.ie/e/bog-eco-ta... #TócharStories and do spread the word?
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
July 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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
We're hosting, in partnership with @nlireland.bsky.social a special event for Int Bog Day July 26 noon, connecting our #tócharstories project with Seamus Heaney and NL collection. www.nli.ie/exhibitions-... 'Bogland - Between the Sights of the Sun'Booking open #bogs @communitywetlands.bsky.social
Bogland: Between the Sights of the Sun
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July 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We're hosting, in partnership with @nlireland.bsky.social a special event for Int Bog Day July 26 noon, connecting our #tócharstories project with Seamus Heaney and NL collection. www.nli.ie/exhibitions-... 'Bogland - Between the Sights of the Sun'Booking open #bogs @communitywetlands.bsky.social
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
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!)
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
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
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
#TócharStories
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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
#TócharStories
www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Climate action doesnt have to clash with 'tradition' or culture. The key is involve people, partner with community, explain and share the purpose, the why of action, and look for benefit for people, places and nature. #tócharstories #justtransition
On Ireland’s peat bogs: climate action clashes with tradition – in pictures
Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken. But many households still continue to cut turf, relying o...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Climate action doesnt have to clash with 'tradition' or culture. The key is involve people, partner with community, explain and share the purpose, the why of action, and look for benefit for people, places and nature. #tócharstories #justtransition
This is who we are ....we'd love to meet you. #TócharStories #bogs #peatlands #wetlands www.tocharwetlands.ie/tochar-stori...
Tóchar Stories - Tóchar Wetlands
Tóchar Community Stories is an important cultural custodianship project and is a vital part of the Tóchar Midlands Wetlands Restoration
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June 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is who we are ....we'd love to meet you. #TócharStories #bogs #peatlands #wetlands www.tocharwetlands.ie/tochar-stori...