GORDON D'ARCY is an environmental writer, artist and educator. The main focus of his work has been the limestone habitat of the Burren. Guiding Burren lovers and visitors alike, educating schoolchildren, and lecturing in the Burren College of Art, he has always kept his enthusiasm for this internationally important landscape. The author of several natural history books, he has illustrated Ireland's Animals: Myths, Legends and Folklore (2010) and Ireland's Birds: Myths, Legends and Folklore (2015) both by Niall MacCoitir. www.gordondarcynature.com

'I have read several books about the Burren, Ireland's ecological showpiece, but none offered such rounded, instructive enjoyment as The Breathing Burren.'

• AcknowledgmentsMapIntroduction1 Halcyon Days2 Dawn Chorus3 Beloved Bully4 Butterfly Men5 A Day in the Life6 Gentian7 Flowers, Flowers, Flowers8 Lost and Found9 Found and Lost10 Orchid Hunters11 'Like an Attenborough Documentary'12 The Land Winkle13 Hooked Beaks and Talons14 Old Goats15 Turlough Traipsing16 A Great Hike17 Not Enough to Bury a Man18 A Night in a Doline19 Pine Martens20 Stoat Antics21 Dolphin Days22 Dusty23 Storm Birds24 Carrickadda25 Finding Fossils26 Cave Insights27 Life Down Below28 Rockforest Relict29 The Caher River30 A Dandy's Refrain31 Winter's Gift32 Aliens and Invasives33 Forward from the Past34 Burren of the Fertile Mind35 What Use the Burren36 How Much is the Burren Worth?37 Sacred Mountain38 Sleeping Giant Further Reading

GORDON D'ARCY is an environmental writer, artist and educator. The main focus of his work has been the limestone habitat of the Burren. Guiding Burren lovers and visitors alike, educating schoolchildren, and lecturing in the Burren College of Art, he has always kept his enthusiasm for this internationally important landscape. The author of several natural history books, he has illustrated Ireland's Animals: Myths, Legends and Folklore (2010) and Ireland's Birds: Myths, Legends and Folklore (2015) both by Niall MacCoitir. www.gordondarcynature.com

'I have read several books about the Burren, Ireland's ecological showpiece, but none offered such rounded, instructive enjoyment as The Breathing Burren.'

• AcknowledgmentsMapIntroduction1 Halcyon Days2 Dawn Chorus3 Beloved Bully4 Butterfly Men5 A Day in the Life6 Gentian7 Flowers, Flowers, Flowers8 Lost and Found9 Found and Lost10 Orchid Hunters11 'Like an Attenborough Documentary'12 The Land Winkle13 Hooked Beaks and Talons14 Old Goats15 Turlough Traipsing16 A Great Hike17 Not Enough to Bury a Man18 A Night in a Doline19 Pine Martens20 Stoat Antics21 Dolphin Days22 Dusty23 Storm Birds24 Carrickadda25 Finding Fossils26 Cave Insights27 Life Down Below28 Rockforest Relict29 The Caher River30 A Dandy's Refrain31 Winter's Gift32 Aliens and Invasives33 Forward from the Past34 Burren of the Fertile Mind35 What Use the Burren36 How Much is the Burren Worth?37 Sacred Mountain38 Sleeping Giant Further Reading