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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.
Admit nothing, blame everyone, be bitter
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I paused at a crossroads. An image of a postcard flashed into my head. A postcard I received...

Symptoms of the Subterranean
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I’m sick again, and so my world shrinks to the boundaries of the house, sometimes to the bedroom...

The beach at Culleton's Gap, Curracloe, Wexford. Christmas Eve, 2012.
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As I write this, I’m sitting in a café in Brussels (where hundreds of refugees are camped in...

The last Of Our Kind
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Beautiful and poignant reaction by Suzanne Walsh, to this weeks news of walrus beachings in the Arctic, and...

The Crossabeg Book: The Slaney and the World by Dave Walsh
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or all the travelling I've done, it's always good to come home. I am writing these words 50m...

Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, on cliffs at the Saltee Islands, off the coast of Wexford, Ireland.
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ff the coast of southeast Ireland lie the two small Saltee Islands. Their simple, low-slung landscapes, four or...

The Cold Edge by Dave Walsh & Duncan Cleary
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Ethereal, emotional photographs of the unforgiving wilderness, wild animals and blue icebergs that question our romantic relationship with...

Dave Walsh: The Cold Edge
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From davewalshphoto.com: There comes a time in a photographer's life when (s)he finally gets to announce the Big...

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’m talking about The Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland, by Rebecca Solnit, which has been a...

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Blather's Dave journeyed to the Arctic outpost of Barentsburg last year. And he finally got off his arse...