Currently Mary is implementing a design concept for the New Ross Library Park in County Wexford. Have a look at her plans & some photos of the progress below.
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This garden draws on three periods of the history of writing and storytelling in Ireland.
1. Irish Mythology
2. The First example of writing in Ireland, the Ogham script.
3. The monastic tradition of illuminated scripts.
Róisín Ingle on … sowing the seeds
Lovely column in the Irish Times by Róisín Ingle about Mary & Dare To Be Wild. Thank you Róisín.
The Sunday Times
Mary & filmmaker Vivienne de Courcy spoke with the Sunday Times at the Irish premier of Dare To Be Wild. Click for a bigger view. 
Dare to Be Wild Film Screening Dublin
Dare to Be Wild, the feature length film based on Mary’s true life story, will screen at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in March. The film focuses on the magical story of Mary’s journey to build a gold medal winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
The screening will be on 26th March at the Lighthouse, 8pm. Tickets go on sale on the film fest website on the 25th February @ 7.30pm.
You can see some stills from the film here on our site and recent distribution news here at Scannain and Variety.
New Progress in the Forest Garden
New year, new update in the DIY Forest Garden blog! Find out what’s been happening as the gang moves on through the next steps from Mary’s upcoming book The Wild Way for creating a do it yourself forest garden.
Landscape Designers Top Ten
Thank you to Diarmuid Gavin for including Mary on this list of “Top Ten Greatest Landscape Designers” in The Daily Mail Online. In great company!
New DIY Forest Garden blog post
Claire has provided an update to her story about building a forest garden using techniques outlined in Mary’s upcoming book The Wild Way. Read along & check out the photos here.
Marketa Irglova & MUNA
Not only is Mary artistic in the wild, she can put that talent to paper as well. Some of her artwork is featured throughout MUNA, the latest album by musician Marketa Irglova. You may know Marketa from the band The Swell Season or as “girl” in the film Once. MUNA, released just last week, is Marketa’s second solo record.
Marketa is an old friend and she asked me to do some drawings for her new album MUNA. I sometimes do prayer drawings for friends which involve me connecting in to the situation that needs help and putting a pen to paper and watching what emerges, all the while holding the best possible outcome in my heart, whatever that may be. I followed that same process for each of Marketa’s beautiful songs and I am honoured that she used them in her album booklet.
Learn more about Mary’s role in the making of MUNA here and see her art throughout the lyrics section here.