February Wonderful Wednesday Webinar

‘Root and Branch – looking at Irish native trees from a variety of angles’ with Anja Murray

Anja will talk about the making of the Root & Branch radio documentaries for RTÉ lyric fm, in which she and co-presenter Brían Mc Gloinn explore the ‘personality’ of six native tree species. She will reveal how they reflect the ecology of each tree alongside their representation in folklore and traditional song, and recount the adventures recording bats, meeting a traditional basket maker, visiting a Connemara rainforest and being guided through a ‘native woodland’ in an inner-city skip.

Anja Murray Anja Murray is an ecologist, environmental policy analyst, and broadcaster currently working across radio, television and print media. She is familiar to many as a presenter on ‘Eco Eye’ on RTÉ 1 and with her weekly ‘Nature File on RTÉ lyric fm. Anja also writes a weekly column about Ireland natural environment for The Examiner newspaper and makes radio documentaries about Ireland’s natural environment.

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This will be a 40-minute talk by the guest speakers followed by a Q&A session. Attendees are able to text in their questions via the Q&A box in their Zoom panel. To view recordings of our previous online talks, please visit Burrenbeo’s YouTube channel.