Performer: Mirah Kellc Moriarty 

Photographer: Rodrigo Esteva

Location: Galway, Ireland
 

Tír Dhúchais means ancestral homeland in Irish Gaelic. In this ritual performance, Mirah traced her father’s lineage and honored those who were forcibly removed or displaced from Ireland over centuries of colonization.  Her father's name, originally Ó Muircheartaigh, means descendant of the sea-warrior.  She was the first in her family to return.​​  

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RESEARCH

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• Arán & Im by Manchán Magan

  • Listen to the Land Speak

  • Thirty-Two Words for Field

  • Ninety-Nine Words for Rain

  • The Irish Words for Nature

• Conversations on the history of Ireland with John Willmott, historian and founder of The Woodland Bard

• Conversations with Sarai Humble, founder of the Fairy Council of Ireland and the Holy Wells Mapping Project

• Poetry by Gaelic artist Siobhán de Paor

• Studies in Ogham divination

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