Day: May 12, 2023

Fay Burnett

I arrived at the SOIL residency, with a bag of peat, collected from Knockmore on Clare Island. I felta preciousness in the peat, derived partly from my feeling of ‘hiraeth’ – homesickness, for theisland. I found this feeling to mirror the current precious reality of the bogland; as it rests andrestores, it is now recognised