Episode 36 Conor W O Brien and the Woolly Mammoth
Nature Magic
English - June 28, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBNature Science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today Mary is talking to Conor W. O’Brien, author of
Life in Ireland- A short history of a long time.
Available to purchase at
https://irishacademicpress.ie/product/life-in-ireland-a-short-history-of-a-long-time/
Conor is a wildlife writer and photographer, with a lifelong interest in the natural world. His work has been published in Ireland’s Own, Irish Wildlife magazine and Wings, the official publication of Birdwatch Ireland, in which he wrote about Ireland’s extinct birds. Conor’s first book, Ireland Through Birds: Journeys in Search of a Wild Nation, was nominated for Best Irish Published Book of the Year at the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards. He is a member of Birdwatch Ireland and the Irish Wildlife Trust, and has given presentations on the great auk and Ireland’s Ice Age fauna to the latter.
Conor is from Wicklow Town, he now lives in County Meath.
Recommended books:
Life in Ireland- A short history of a long time
By: Conor W O Brien
My Garden World
By: Monty Don
Europe: A Natural History
By: Tim Flannery
Our Inner Ape: The best and worst of human nature
By: Frans de Waal
The cultural lives of whales and dolphins
By: Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
Five in Five- Trinity Botany Department short video on Burren Flora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgysq6oUYo
Contact Conor at
[email protected]
Contact Mary at
[email protected]
Check out Burren Nature Sanctuary at
www.burrennaturesanctuary.ie
Nature Magic Podcast Website
https://www.naturemagic.ie
Support the Nature Magic podcast at
https://www.patreon.com/naturemagic