Getting back in touch with nature

A new poetry festival has been inspired by Waterville providing the setting for ancient poem The Song of Amergin, writes Marjorie Brennan.

According to legend, Irish poetry began with the arrival of Amhairgín, who, landing with the Milesians on Kerry’s Iveragh peninsula, put his right foot on the ground and recited his poem to claim the country for his Goidelic (Gaelic) people.