Leave No Plastic Trace Highlights Plastic Consumption and Waste

Cape Clear Island

Wed 06 Aug 2025 (note: this event has already taken place)
2pm
FREE


Sherkin island art photographer, Nuala Mahon, is behind an initiative to highlight the detrimental impact of plastics on West Cork’s islands.

Leave No Plastic Trace is a series of talks, poetry and video presentations taking place on Cape Clear Island on the 6th of August, Heir Island on the 8th of August and Sherkin Island on the 11th of August. Each event will start at 2:00pm and will run for approximately three hours.

Sponsored by Creative Places West Cork Islands, the events include a powerful and thought-provoking video made by Nuala Mahon to document her use of plastics over the course of one year.

Nollaig Rowan, an award-winning poet who is based part-time on Sherkin Island, will recite a poem she wrote in response to the video.

The three events will also include talks by Professor Marcel Jansen, an ecophysiologist at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) at University College Cork (UCC), and Tad Kirokwaski, CEO of Voice, an Irish environmental NGO dedicated to empowering individuals and local communities to

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