Neil Hegarty
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 7, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Setting the Land Free: Visions of a Rewilded Ireland â an urgent manifesto for living with nature (opens the original)
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In the opening pages of Setting the Land Free, Eoghan Daltunâs urgent new manifesto for living with nature, the author describes the difference a fence can make. The scene is the boundary line of his rewilded land on the Beara Peninsula. On one side of the line lies commonage, the landscape denuded and shorn of trees: âas ecologically defunct,â writes Daltun, âas your average car parkâ. On the other side of the fence spreads a riot of growth: âbluebells, wood anemone, lesser celandin
The Salt King by Natasha Pulley: Overwhelming darkness leavened by shining dialogue (opens the original)
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The Salt King opens on the edge of Hreodwater, a lonely settlement on the East Anglian fens. The town is served by a distant railway station, but from there the traveller must walk an unsignposted path across the fields, until Hreodwater announces itself in the form of a custom house, lit by lamplight âglowing an orange patch onto the path and glittering in the salt that rimed the eaves and window ledgesâ. For this is a salt town, lit by salt light, and this is a salt world: Hreodwater is in
The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong: A dazzling second novel as layered as the bog itself (opens the original)
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March on an Irish bog, and a man watches as his lurcher digs into the heather. More than watches: he joins in, compelled, obsessed; and an object is at last wrestled from the wet ground. The man drags it home, washes it down: it is an ancient elk antler, and now the man wonders what he will do next, how many laws he has broken, when he will be found out. The man is Patch, which is a name one might give to a dog, but the lurcher â who has no name â is described in as least as much detail: her
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