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February Online Coffee Morning: North Bull Island

Name: February Online Coffee Morning: North Bull Island
Start: 2022-02-03T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-02-03T12:00:00+00:00

February 3, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dollymount is a unique beach that forms part of an island in Dublin Bay. The five kilometre long Bull Island is just 800 metres wide and is the result a natural build up of silt and sediment over a period of 200 years following the construction of a harbour wall in Dublin Bay. Dollymount lies on the south west side of this constantly evolving island. The beach is accessed from the mainland by means of a single lane wooden bridge or a wide causeway. Dollymount is a very long, sandy and quiet beach that runs the length of Bull Island and as it is just seven kilometres from Dublin city centre it is still classed as being within the city of Dublin.

Join our cross-coastal coffee mornings for informal conversation about heritage and creative themes across the port towns. The February coffee morning will take place on Thursday February 3 at 11am.

We’ll have Tomas Buitendijk of the Ecostructure project to speak about the Dublin North Bull Wall and the island that formed as a result of its construction.

Tomas will use the example of the accidental creation of North Bull Island in the early 1800s to discuss what “working with nature” really means: giving up control in the pursuit of human and environmental benefit. In this particular case wind, water, and sediment deposits together created a space of significant cultural and ecological value, with only limited human involvement. He will also address how this example can be used as an evidence base for the use of Nature Based Solutions in other contexts, such as the work done in the Ecostructure project.

Tomas is a postdoctoral researcher in UCD’s School of Biology and Environmental Science. Joining details below for Thursday February 3 at 11am. We’d love to have you there.

Please email aoife.dowling@ucc.ie for a Zoom link.

Details

Date:: February 3, 2022
Time:: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Tags:: Coffee Morning

Ports, Past and Present is a project led by University College Cork in partnership with Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales Trinity St David and Wexford County Council examining the cultural heritage of the ports in the Irish sea basin. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme.