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Damien Enright

Enright's weekly environmental column is in its 14th year in the Irish Examiner. He regularly contributes to Irish and overseas journals and has published poems in Poetry Ireland Review. In 2002/03, he wrote and presented Enright's Way, a series of three environmental programmes for Irish television. He has written five walking guides to Co. Cork and A place near Heaven was published by Gill & Macmillan in 2004.

Sips and swallows, Her father & Drifter

[ poetry - november 04 ]

The octopus men

[ places - october 03 ]

The hunter hunted...

Here comes the Sun

[ places - january 03 ]

Tourists have replaced cows in La Gomera, and Euros tinkle instead of cowbells.

A boy's adventures in Afghanistan

[ places - may 02 ]

"The owner produced a magnum-size handgun for our delectation, then a Luger, then a replica Biretta, then a Derringer ('...perfect for your trouser pocket...')."

Bagpipes on the beach

[ places - april 02 ]

Singing whales and piping tourists.

The moon and the compass

[ places - april 02 ]

Ireland's waters are fairly innocuous, but there are odd dangers lurking.

In search of the beautiful ghosts

[ places - april 02 ]

A return trip to Ibiza to find echoes of a previous generation of ravers.