Speakers
Maeve Donovan
Essayist and slow-journalism advocate whose work on coastal memory has appeared in Granta and The Dublin Review.
Tomás Albrecht
Composer translating bird migration patterns into immersive sound installations performed across the pontoon stage.
Sade Okafor
Architect reimagining vernacular lakeside structures through climate-responsive design and reclaimed Irish timber.
Hana Ishikawa
Botanist mapping the quiet intelligence of reed beds and the unexamined lives they shelter.
Voices Chosen for Stillness
Each speaker is invited not for volume, but for the quality of attention they bring to water, weather, and the overlooked. Expect reading-room intimacy rather than keynote spectacle.
Conversations unfold across two evenings, in drifting dialogue between disciplines — a poet beside a hydrologist, a chef beside a philosopher of place.
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Niall Brennan
Nature writer and former fisherman tracing the forgotten vocabulary of inland waters and working boats.
Lior Mendel
Philosopher of slowness whose essays on boredom, dusk, and waiting have shaped a generation of editors.
Aoife Mahon
Folklorist collecting the last spoken versions of lake legends from elders across the Shannon basin.
Rivka Soren
Climate scientist whose field notebooks blend measurement with the lyricism of shifting shorelines.
Checklist
- ✓Twelve confirmed speakers across literature, ecology, music, and philosophy
- ✓Two evenings of curated conversations on the floating stage
- ✓Open-air reading sessions at first light, weather permitting
- ✓Intimate Q&A circles limited to thirty attendees per session
- ○Full speaker biographies and reading lists released in early summer
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