The first President of Ireland. Douglas Hyde was born on this day January 17 in 1860. This is one of my favourite quotes, a truth of which I am constantly reminded.
“Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.” (Douglas Hyde)
The Derryveagh Mountains, County Donegal, January 2015 ©Siobhán McNamara
A country steeped in myth & legend, where the landscape bleeds into dreamscape, and archetypes and metaphor roll like wagon wheels along the roads. 🙂
what I love in the mountains is a space