Irelands Changing Nature is a three-part series exploring Ireland’s changing landscapes and in particular, how culture has shaped our beliefs and attitudes around the natural world. The series examines the history of the relationship between Ireland’s natural environment and the people who have lived here through the ages, featuring an eclectic weaving together of woolly mammoths, hunter gatherers, Bronze Age rituals, Cromwellian settlers, psychology, and future rewilding of mountains and bogs.
Written and presented by Anja Murray and with an original score from cellist and composer Kevin Murphy (of Slow Moving Clouds), this series is about how people and culture have shaped nature in Ireland and how we must now examine these relationships in order to meet the environmental challenges we are facing.
Episode 2 ‘Taming’ explores the transformations that arose in both landscape and culture with the discovery of metals. Presenter Anja Murray meets Eamonn P. Kelly, former keeper of antiquities at the National History Museum, who shares the discoveries of ancient bodies and rituals that tell how our ancient ancestors saw their place in the world, with some surprising revelations about sacred Irish deities of the land.
Original score by Kevin Murphy of Slow Moving Clouds.
Producer: Anja Murray
Presenter: Anja Murray
Researcher: Lenny Antonelli
Original Score: Kevin Murphy
Editing and sound design: Julien Clancy
Producer for RTÉ lyric fm: Eoin O Kelly
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 19th September, 6pm-7pm