Mindfulness through Irish eyes

Rose Martin looks at a range of books for reading and for giving as gifts over the holiday season, including Fiann Ó Nualláin’s latest work on mindfulness wrapped in the very practical Irish tradition of the seanfhocail

The very many of you who read Fiann Ó Nualláin’s work every week will know of his commonsense, irreverence, soulfulness, honestly and above all, humour. And while his stock in trade on these pages is usually about matters of the soil, he manages to insinuate all of the above and more into what may appear on the surface to be a simple guiding narrative on gardens, but which is usually a little nutshell of wisdom on life, the universe and everything.

So we know he can plant, we know he can design, (Bloom Gold Medals to prove it boy!), we know he can use medicinal herbs to heal, as the last couple of books show, and we know that his obsession is ethnobotany and the crossover between culture and cultivation and all points in between.