Delighted to get a story echoing some of the ancient celtic traditions by Fiach Walker . I first met Fiach at the last workshop at An Gairdin Beo during the International Pan Celtic Festival, Carlow, April 2023 .
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Fiach’s words:
Here stands this old Oak, this Dair Sean
This sean Dair , who I come to, to receive Dair Sean from ,
the ultimate wisdom through transmission.
This beautiful grandparent figure who stands here strong amongst the ages .
She gives shelter and life through food and home and nourishment,
to humans , to animals , to birds, to insects , to plants , even to trees.
She grows in her centre a hawthorne of the heart medicine.
She is the energy of strength, of sovereignty ,
she is most noble of all the trees in the wood ,
according to the Ogham (ancient celtic alphabet)
First she is the most useful , the most resourceful.
She is the one we bow to , we pray to ,
we take from , graciously with thanks for all she gives to us
at this time and through all times.
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#1 Empty Tendrils
#2 Pomegranate Tree
#3 Trees are like Humans
#4 Old Ash – A Real Survivor
#5 Tree Rings of Life
#6 A Very Weird Elf
#7 Old Crabapple of Wenhua Dian
#8 Standing Fast
#9 Feeling Good – Tree Song
#10 Forest Breath – Tree Story
#11 Protective Peach – Tree Story
#12 Bee Tree (Part 1) Sycamore
#13 Winter Apples
#14 Ancient Yew Trees
#15 Once I Counted Birds
#16 Family Oak
#17 When the Trees Say Everything
#18 Strawberry Tree
#19 Mother Oak and Baby Oak
#20 My Leylandii
#21 Chestnut Repotted#22 Native Birch#22 Native Birch
#23 Ethan’s Tree
#24 Holding Trunk of Time
#25 Our Mother’s Legacy
#26 It Blossomed
#27 Always Trying To Hold Each Other Up
#28 Wollemi Pine
#29 Barrow Willow
#30 For What We Might Become
#31 Sheltering Beech
#32 Millennium Monkey Puzzle
#33 Monterey Cyprus
#34 Struggle On, Struggle On
#35 Like A Chestnut
#36 Head and Shoulders Above
#37 An Dair Sean
Open Call for your tree story on video
Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio-ecological art practice which invites you to tell a story or share information about trees . It is a creative-led social enquiry of how we can live well for both personal and collective wellbeing. Your story can be any kind of tree story , a personal tree story, an ecological tree story , an environmental tree story, an historical tree story or even a botanical tree story. I do hope you can contribute a comment on how we can live better with the greater community of life.
The year 2023 we continue to gather your stories in the form of one minute videos and we are really looking forward to hearing your tree story . I can be contacted directly on this platform or on the contact page on this website.
Niamh Cunningham