PLEASE NOTE
Bookings for this event open to the general public on Thursday 18 September 2025.
However, you can secure your ticket in advance of this by using the Promo Code GREEN2025.
IN-PERSON CONVERSATION
in partnership with Dublin Book Festival and TU Dublin
As part of the Dublin Book Festival Sustainability Here and Now, we invite you to join us with Anja Murray and Éanna Ní Lamhna in conversation with John Gormley of Green Foundation Ireland.
EYES OPEN TO IRELAND’S NATURAL WORLD
WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2025 – 14:00 to 15:00 (Irish time)
(registration starts at 13:45)
Venue:
Room EQ-002, East Quad, TU Dublin,
Grangegorman, Dublin, D07 XFF2.
GETTING THERE
Room EQ-002, East Quad is situated in TU Dublin Grangegorman and here is a map to help you locate it.
Please note that parking is limited. There is some on-street parking available but please use the excellent public transport links if possible.
About Our Guest Speakers
ANJA MURRAY
Anja Murray is an ecologist, environmental broadcaster and writer who has devoted her career to the protection and restoration of nature. She is known for her clear, research-based approach to explaining complex ecological challenges, including as an expert presenter on Eco Eye on RTÉ 1, in the many radio documentaries she makes, and in her weekly Nature File on Lyric FM. Her critically acclaimed first book Wild Embrace (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) was a bestseller.
ÉANNA NÍ LAMHNA
Éanna Ní Lamhna is a biologist, environmental and wildlife consultant, radio and television presenter, author and educator. Éanna has one of the most recognisable voices on Irish radio and has been an expert on RTÉ’s wildlife programme Mooney Goes Wild since it began in 1995. She has an honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Galway and has served as president of both the national environmental charity An Taisce and the Tree Council of Ireland. Originally from Louth, she lives in Dublin. Éanna is the author of several popular wildlife books for readers young and not so young.
As always at our events, an important part
will be the Q&A session which will allow
full participation by those attending.
TICKET DETAILS
While admission is FREE to this event, registration is REQUIRED.
Please secure your place by booking here.
THEME
In her new book Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts and Other Treasures of Irish Nature (Gill Books, 2025), ecologist and environmental broadcaster Anja Murray leads us through Ireland’s hedgerows, understoreys, shorelines and sodden hollows, revealing the hidden marvels and complex communities of beings that often go unheard and unseen by us humans.
In a new edition of her book Wild Dublin (O’Brien Press, 2008; updated edition 2025), wildlife expert Éanna Ní Lamhna looks to the skies, parks, gardens, wetlands, rivers, canals and coastline to showcase Dublin’s biodiversity in all its glory, inviting us to see our busy capital city in a whole new light.
This event is part of Dublin Book Festival 2025.