Natural history – Brian Maye on pioneering zoologist Robert Patterson

An Irishman’s Diary

Another Life: A brief history of Lusitanian flora in Ireland

Michael Viney: ‘The latest theory ... involves possible drinking habits of Spanish Bronze Age copper miners’

Another Life: The flight of the Dublin wagtail

Michael Viney: At what point birds dispersed and where they went seems to have escaped the record

Botanists not wild about Trinity College’s wildflower ‘meadow’

Mix of species in wildflower seed packets ‘never found growing together in the wild’

Michael Viney: Our flying friends and foe do not seem as plentiful as before

In the heatwave we left every window open at night to trap the slightest breeze, inviting all sorts of winged invasion. Nothing came in

Firewater in the hold: The Irish whiskey aged at sea off Clare Island

Carl O’Grady is hoping to make the island a tourist attraction for whiskey enthusiasts

Another Life: Poets bring me to places I cannot now go

Michael Viney visits Nephin with Sean Lysaght, Connemara with Eamon Grennan

Another Life: Arrival of great skuas may alter seabird balance on Clare Island

Michael Viney: North Atlantic’s top predator now shares island with 13 other species

The granny state – An Irishwoman’s Diary on a Clare Island reunion

Distinctive history of nature literature compiled in insightful anthology

Woven Shades of Green is a ‘a generous treasury of Irish nature poetry and prose’

Spot the difference: how Clare Island has changed in 100 years

Clare Island’s increasingly rainy climate offers special rewards to scientific fieldwork

Mulranny the proud last stronghold of the Old Irish Goat

Recognition of their venerable bloodlines has swept them into attention as a rare and authentic Irish breed

Magical Mayo: Ways to go wild in the west

Over mountains and waves, sporting heroes showcase Mayo’s raw wildness

How many birds can the natural world support?

The brilliant CB Moffat anticipated 21st-century avian population dynamics theory