“When a language is lost it creates a rupture in the national psyche.
To lose a language is to lose the knowledge of the environment and the accumulated wisdom of our ancestors, for without knowing our history,
we cannot understand our present.
We are in need of a cure.
We believe that by awakening the language within, we awaken ancestral memories and the wild nature that is our heritage.
To that end, we create a space and the activities for a person to connect with the wildness within and without.
Wild Irish is made of performance poet, writer and mother, Siobhán de Paor and Diarmuid Lyng, facilitator, father and Wild Hurler.
They use practices such as ritual, wild hurling, foraging, nature immersion, yoga, meditation and breathwork among other practices, run bilingually, in order to facilitate deeper connection to our cultural inheritance and our place.
They are currently running Retreats on their home patch in South Kilkenny, which they are in the process of buying in order to create a full time Retreat and community hub where the language, culture and native crafts can't be practiced and passed on.”
Diarmuid Lyng
You can support Diarmuid and Siobhán in their amazing efforts here
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