Donal Hickey: Spreading the gospel of birds

Natural Historian Christy Dorgan's enthusiasm for Ireland's birds is undimmed by the passage of time

A grey wagtail in the process of building a nest in one of a number of bird boxes which have been put up in Fermoy by Christy Dorgan. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Showing almost evangelical zeal, a dynamic Corkman continues to spread the gospel of birds. 

Christy Dorgan first brought out his self-published book, Irish Birds: Their nests and eggs, in 2008, as a “kind of thanksgiving” for all the happy days he spent growing up in Fermoy in the 1950s and ’60s. Now almost 70 and living in Carrigtwohill, his enthusiasm is undimmed by the passage of time.