Part 5. On various fish you find in Ireland and a report about a great, oversized perch who tried to eat a moorhen.

"There are species of fish not found elsewhere, hillicks, fat glints, levers, long-eyed jellies, sharp blues, gutties, twiddles, Hurley, black bandwidths, melonbreaths, buckles, mudhumps, slow fevers, kreelers and hunky adori. Of particular beauty are the perch..."

Part 4 of series of writings after Gerald of Wales. Bealtaine piece on lakes....

"... there are older residues and beliefs regarding portals and pathways that are settled into the silt and the pondweed, waiting to surge into life beside the slumbering pike."

Part Three. Focusing on the rivers of Ireland, both ancient and new, and how those rivers affect the nature of the people of the island.

An unreliable natural and social history of the island of Ireland. Podcast of hunches, fantasies and fact.