Richard Collins: Natural history of Dublin celebrated in Éanna's fab book

Badgers, foxes and bats are doing ok here but the Irish hare is under 'great pressure'

Wild Dublin: Exploring Nature in the City by Éanna Ní Lamhna is written in a lively no-nonsense style

Éanna Ní Lamhna’s Wild Dublin, Exploring Nature in the City appeared in 2008. She has now published a new edition of the book, laced with stunning photographs, many taken by Anthony Woods. Vignettes of the city’s wild animals plants and fungi are embellished with colourful turns of phrase... ‘graveyards full of life’... ‘if you want directions in Dublin city, you ask a culchie’... ‘pinkeen’ comes from ‘penk’... Elizabethan English for ‘minnow’.

Éanna, a proud Louth ‘culchie’ herself, loves her adopted city.