My life in books: 'I read to understand or learn new things, rather than for escape or comfort'

Eoghan Daltun says it wasn’t a book that made him want to be a writer, but the temperate rainforest he has been rewilding for over 17 years now on their farm on the Beara Peninsula

Eoghan Daltun has been impressed by Gary Lennon's film based on his first book, 'An Irish Atlantic Rain Forest', which has been selling out in smaller cinemas around Ireland. File picture: Dan Linehan

Eoghan Daltun is a sculpture conservator who in 2009 moved with his family to a farm on the Beara Peninsula in Cork.

He wrote about his rewilding project there in the bestselling book An Irish Atlantic Rainforest.