“If Ireland’s national consciousness can be sought in the matter of the country’s terrain, it might be found in its bogs. Among the items dug up from the Bog of Allen: casked butter that has scarcely decayed since it was stowed centuries ago; two-millennia-old two-millennia-old leather shoes, which look as if they were unlaced yesterday; a Psalter, still legible after eight hundred years underground.”
Bogland, by William Atkins
Climate change and the peat industry’s dying days
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