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May—Oct 2025

A creative exploration of place, heritage and nature

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A creative exploration of place, heritage and nature

In 2025, The Shaking Bog Festival is evolving and changing. In an attempt to broaden its horizons and embrace the natural rhythms of the year, the Shaking Bog will embark on a new and exciting long-term project. Riverscapes, a place-based initiative will aspire to celebrate, engage, inspire, enliven and inform the communities of both people and nature that live in and around the Glencree and Dargle Rivers. And, in turn, share this with the wider world.

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The Shaking Bog is about stepping away from everyday life to deepen our appreciation of the natural world so that we may move forwards, together, in hope.

We urge you to make the most of it - book your tickets in bundles, invite friends to come along and immerse yourselves in the alchemy that happens where art and nature meet.  

Bridge Street Books is our official retail partner

Bridge Street Books

The Shaking Bog supports independent booksellers and we’re delighted to welcome back Bridge Street Books for the 2024 festival. Bridge Street Books will be situated under the awning in front of the Schoolhouse for Art, Enniskerry, selling a selection of books by our visiting artists as well as a wide choice of other nature writing.

"I loved that performance in the woods –
the quick glimpse of gorse, the songs of Joseph Campbell, then off to the Reconciliation Centre..."
Alice Oswald

The Shaking Bog Podcast

A seasonal podcast that compliments the festival and maintains a year round presence.

Offering a rich tapestry of readings, reflections and conversations from some of Ireland’s finest writers, artists and nature experts, each episode offers a carefully crafted and varied canvas of voices from a diverse range of artistic disciplines. Interweaving gentle observations of life, art and nature, the podcast endeavours to bring the listener on an intimate meander through the seasons.

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Previous Episodes

Katie Donovan June 2024

In this episode of The Shaking Bog Podcast we celebrate a new collection of poems – May Swim – by the acclaimed poet Katie Donovan.

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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, May 2024

This Shaking Bog Podcast is dedicated to one of our foremost poets and perhaps the most important Irish language poet living today - Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

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Michael Longley, December 2023

The complete recording of Michael Longley's memorable reading and conversation with Dr Margaret Kelleher.

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"A festival like this is what I call civilisation"
Michael Longley
Nature writing icon copyright Ronan McDonnell

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