Eoghan Daltun 🌍

Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. 17 years living with 73 acres of wildland. MOVED TO BLUESKY: @irishrainforest.bsky.social

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

After 2 years of work, I've finally taken delivery of an actual printed copy of my second book 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey'.

I've done my best to capture the essence of these priceless, but mostly dying, ecosystems, and am over the moon with the results.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Just popping back in here solely to ask why the F**K you're all still engaging on a hellsite owned and constantly, massively influenced by an open nazi, who uses it to promote global fascism?

I moved to Bluesky early last year, and it's *SO* much better.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

On the day that Trump takes over in the USA, this will be my last ever post on this platform. Why?

X has been turned into a weapon for global fascism, and engaging on here helps fuel that.

I've moved to Bluesky (WAY better), and urge you to do likewise. See you there!! 🌍

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Epiphytic hart's tongue fern.

Irish rainforest magic. 🌎

[Donna Rainey @donnarainey4]

@IrishRainforest Alders are so beautiful.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest' in good company alongside Seán Ronayne @SoundsIrish's 'Nature Boy' on the top shelf of @eason Dundrum's bestselling books.
@HachetteIre

[MRMUSK @MRMUSKx38]

@IrishRainforest The character of time written in the trees; cold winters, heat, encounters with wind & humans.

#TreesAreMyBestFriends yours too

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

A hulking old alder in Uragh Woods, Beara.

Ancient trees like this are so special and rare. But just imagine how once, they were almost everywhere.
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[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Rainforest and moving water: such a lovely combination. 🌍

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

A cascading river swirls around an island in arbutus-filled forest, Killarney.

If invasive sika deer, goats, and rhododendron were seriously tackled, this place could be a global wonder, instead of the dying wreck it is.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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[Allan Mee🇵🇸🍉🇮🇪 @KerryeagleMee]

Hard to fathom the mentality of people who shoot protected birds, like this female White-tailed Eagle, collected from a nest in Verdal, Norway, in 2022 as part of the reintroduction programme...

Rare white-tailed eagle shot dead in Co Westmeath https://t.co/sh4jwuf5vq via @rte

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

In Glengarriff Woods: something sadly rare in my place: old holly trees. This species is super vulnerable to bark-stripping (causing death) by invasive sika deer + goats.

And it's such a shame: despite the lack of epiphytic growths, holly becomes a very special tree as it ages.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Pottering about with the dog in an area of full throttle natural regeneration, and a brief winter shower sweeps through.

Long enough to run for rocky cover, and be forced to stand and enjoy a spectacular Atlantic panorama.
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[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

@CauveryMadhavan It's true, I've seen them there myself!

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

A forest aflame with vibrant colour, Glengarriff.
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[Dave Downey @dave_downey]

@IrishRainforest

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

"Exquisite photography and words create a precious window on to our rich last fragments of native Irish rainforest.

Informative, poetic writing extends this way beyond a coffee-table book."

High praise for 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest' in yesterday's @IrishTimes.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

@Paulp8181 @WaterstonesCrk @HachetteIre Join Bluesky!

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

I was in the wonderful @WaterstonesCrk earlier, signing copies of 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest'.

Apparently the book has been selling "fantastically well"!!
@HachetteIre

[andyduefrine @andyduefrine]

@IrishRainforest @WaterstonesCrk @HachetteIre Have a copy myself on loan from @dubcilib, half way through, great read so far, you should be Minister for the Environment, keep up the good work.