@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.socialReposted by @timhannigan.bsky.socialWhy is it so difficult to walk across the Irish countryside?
Lovely to welcome @timhannigan.bsky.social to Chapters to sign The Pathless Land, his 678km journey exploring Ireland's lost footpaths, land history and belonging.
Thank you, Tim! 💚
@timhannigan.bsky.socialGalway people! I'll be talking about #ThePathlessLand at Charlie Byrne's on Thursday at 6pm - free event; come along for chats about my 678km walk across Ireland and why this place has the worst countryside access in Europe. There will probably be wine...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folio-fest...
@timhannigan.bsky.socialA few snaps (courtesy of my colleague Tommy Weir) from Wednesday's launch for #ThePathlessLand in Liber Bookshop in Sligo. A really lovely evening - and a great contingent of our brilliant ATU Sligo Writing & Literature students in attendance.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialA bit in the Sligo Champion today about #ThePathlessLand ahead of next week's launch event at Liber Bookshop.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialBook launch for #ThePathlessLand next week, if anyone's in the Sligo area and wants to drink a glass of cheap wine and stare distractedly out the window while someone says nice things about my book and then I waffle on for a bit...
@timhannigan.bsky.socialNever more so than in Ireland! There's a "Walks Scheme" where landowners receive payment to establish a permissive footpath. Something broader on the same system might work. But I'm wary of pay-for-access as principle. Farmers here get a fair amount of public money already without much quid pro quo.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialReposted by @timhannigan.bsky.socialIreland is definitely not the friendliest of places if you're a walker...
#ThePathlessLand
(If you'd like to see progressive change to countryside access arrangements in Ireland, please support Keep Ireland Open - the only organisation working on this issue.)
@timhannigan.bsky.socialThe conventional villains of the British access campaigns - the big aristocratic landowners - were dispossessed in the late c19th and early c20th (some were literally burnt out of their big houses) and their lands redistributed to former tenants. It's a bit of a "careful what you wish for" scenario!
@timhannigan.bsky.socialWe have Keep Ireland Open, who have been quietly campaigning for years (without success): www.keepirelandopen.org But the cultural and historical situation here is very different and a "mass trespass" would be a much more awkward narrative here.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialIt's a surfing-related thing: half the people I grew up with were Indonesia experts in their early twenties (experts in the very narrow sense of knowing all about surfing in Indonesia!)
@timhannigan.bsky.socialIt's definitely a shock to the system if you're used to hiking in other European countries - and perhaps especially in Wales/England. There *are* places to walk (state forestry land, national parks etc). But the access that exists is all permissive only, no permanent rights of way.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialIreland is definitely not the friendliest of places if you're a walker...
#ThePathlessLand
(If you'd like to see progressive change to countryside access arrangements in Ireland, please support Keep Ireland Open - the only organisation working on this issue.)
@timhannigan.bsky.socialAh, brilliant - right on home-ground! And yes, there's generally a bit of wave-dodging in that vicinity...
@timhannigan.bsky.socialThis looks great, Jonathan - thanks! I'll share it with the French SELVA network. Might be one or two there who it will appeal to.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialThis looks excellent - online, too, so easily accessible to all.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialFor whom is the funhouse fun? Definitely not for the undergrads in seminar 2 of the postmodernism module, anyway - but they'll learn to love it!
@timhannigan.bsky.socialThat sounds like a very good idea. I should probably consider that myself next time!
@shafikmeghji.bsky.socialReposted by @timhannigan.bsky.socialIn the latest issue of @geographical.co.uk, I review the magazine’s book of the month, the engaging and insightful #ThePathlessLand by @timhannigan.bsky.social.
@timhannigan.bsky.socialThat's a really common scenario - people who've lived somewhere else (pretty much anywhere in Europe will do it, but the contrast with Wales/England is particularly extreme) are always the ones most aware of the issue.
But more about it here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
@stane.bsky.socialReposted by @timhannigan.bsky.socialFinding myself 'home' pro tem in rural Ireland (I'm a Dub) fresh from tramping the Yorkshire dales freely, I've been wondering about the inaccessibility of the country around me. Will read...
