About

I am an Irish writer, artist and educator interested in the stories that shape our relationship with the world.

I was raised among the rolling hills of Clarkhill and Legananny in County Down. The daughter of a storyteller, my early sense of place was shaped by my father's stories and my mother's deep connection to the landscape and community around them.

Trained in architecture, I have long been interested in how the places we inhabit shape our sense of identity, belonging and our understanding of the world. My studies and work have taken me from Northern Ireland to Australia and back to Ireland, where I now live in North Tipperary.

My writing brings together Irish mythology, folklore, landscape and ecology. I am drawn to the older stories that connect people to place, and to the possibility that these traditions might offer new ways of thinking about our responsibilities to the living world.

My essay, Holding the World Together: Myth, Language, and the Reawakening of Kanyini in the Irish Imagination, appears in Dúchas: Responses to Amitav Ghosh's Seamus Deane – Field Day Lecture and in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.

I continue to explore these questions through writing, art, traditional song and research into relational cosmologies: ways of understanding ourselves not as separate from nature, but as part of a wider web of life, place and relationship.

This website is a place for writing, reflections and ongoing explorations of Irish culture, landscape and the stories that help us hold the world together.