Irish Marine Life

To map something is to record, or graphically represent, in one document, its features, boundaries, populations, activities and other important points of interest. Straightforward enough on land, but how does one map the unmappable? The great expanse of ocean which…

Bobbing in the waves close to shore one evening a few weeks ago, the almost perfectly spherical and pinkish-coloured visitor from the sea must have looked very out-of-place in the dark-grey frothing surf. Hard but delicate, hollow inside and adorned…

It’s hard to beat grilled mackerel on the West Coast at this point in the year. After a summer of feasting on tiny crustaceans in the bountiful bays of Mayo, the fish’s oil content is at its highest and thus…

Farraigí na hÉireann (Seas of Ireland) is a new six part Irish Ocean Wildlife series to be broadcast by TG4 from Tuesday September 20th 2011 at 8pm. Almost two years in production, for the first time on Irish TV, this series…