Myka Steggall

One of the factors that makes spoken English in Ireland so interesting is the colourful ghost of the Gaelic language behind it. This imbues the use of English with great colour, nuance and power.

This balance was vital since the Celts were a rural, farming people. This mythological and spiritual perspective has had an immense subconscious effect on how landscape is viewed in Ireland. Landscape is not matter nor merely nature, rather it enjoys a luminosity. Landscape is numinous. Each field has a different name and in each place something di