A cherished Irish tradition is dying out. New school aims to fix that

A cherished Irish tradition is dying out. New school aims to fix that

At the Donegal Thatching School, master thatchers teach their skills to help preserve Ireland’s long tradition of thatched-roofed cottages.

Former Wexford hurling captain Diarmuid Lyng and his partner, poet Siobhán de Paor, are raising money to build an Irish language and culture retreat in County Kilkenny. For the past eight years, Diarmuid and Siobhán have been running retreats with a strong emphasis on Irish language and nature under their Wild Irish Retreat project and now they have a vision to build on that work and open a physical centre. They started the retreats in the Kerry…